On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:32:24PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > Hi Folks; > Is there a program that will write zeros to a Linux > partition? I need to clean up a hard drive and doing > a mke2fs does not erase the old data, so that is not > a formatting program.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/partition
mke2fs /dev/<partition>
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