Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:06:04 +0200 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, "Bruce Cran" <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? Message-ID: <op.whuxsezgg7njmm@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <500C1788.8000505@cran.org.uk> References: <201207221038.q6MAc8kW022215@mail.r-bonomi.com> <500C0B21.3020001@cran.org.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207221701330.2621@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <500C1788.8000505@cran.org.uk>
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:08:56 +0200, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > On 22/07/2012 16:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can >>> just write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 . >> >> who prevents you to bood live CD or pendrive with FreeBSD (or >> openbsd,netbsd,linux,solaris,whatever usable)? > > Nobody - I didn't say users couldn't boot from a FreeBSD/etc live CD, > but zeroing the disk in Cygwin is an alternative. > Microsoft's format.exe can zero a volume, at least in the newer (>2008) versions: /p:<passes> : Zeros every sector on the volume for the number of passes specified. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730730(v=ws.10) Regards, Michael -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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