OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

Ambrogio fn050202 at interfree.it
Fri May 29 11:39:57 UTC 2009


Il giorno ven, 29/05/2009 alle 14.52 +1200, Clint Dilks ha scritto:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/youbettergetthisright bs=1M
> >
> If you want to be really sure you need to do the command above several 
> time or use software like
> 
> http://www.dban.org/
> 
/dev/zero is not the right device to use.
Better is /dev/random or /dev/urandom
But they are not speed

Bye
 Ambrogio




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