Best way to clear/clean a HD
Steven R. Ringwald
asric at asric.com
Tue Jun 28 22:56:02 UTC 2005
Todd Cary wrote:
> I have Fedora 3 on my box, but Fedora 4 cannot get to the choice of
> Updating or Replacing. I need to remove the current FC3. What is the
> best way to do that?
Well, you could use mke2fs (or whichever other flavour you prefer) to
wipe the partitions out). If that fails, fdisk the drive and delete the
partitions.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=200
should also do a good job of wiping out the partition table. (assuming
your drive is hda).
Steve
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