Best partitioning?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Deron Meranda wrote:

> If nothing else you can always wipe the drive the forceful way;
> boot into Linux (or the recovery disk) and do something like,
>
>    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
>
> **Warning, that will delete EVERYTHING on the hard drive!

Is bs=512 necessary or useful?

Would cp /dev/zero /dev/hda do the same thing?

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