Best partitioning?

[Vassilios Kotoulas]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:17 -0500, Michael Hennebry 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?
I recommend to use much bigger bs. the bigger the bs is the faster your
hd is wiped

> Would cp /dev/zero /dev/hda do the same thing?
I think this won't work. cp is a file system command and what you want
is killing your file system

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