didn't work! maybe the spacing was wrong. where are the spaces (if any)?
also maybe went to wrong place??? i booted to knoppix then chose "root" which gave me a window looking like command line. it didn't respond to the commands, just printed the root thing again......? but i'll keep trying....
On May 15, 2004, at 6:28 PM, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 05:27:38PM -0700, Kenneth Silverman wrote:hi you guys! i am trying to completely "swipe" the hard disk clean on
my desktop pc, the one that neal and joseph helped me partition with
linux and windows in january. i managed to wipe the windows side clean
by formatting but haven't erased the knoppix side or taken the
partition out. somebody at last week's meeting gave me the commands to
completely zero the drive but I LOST THE PAPER IT WAS ON! sorry for
being a dweeb. can anyone give me the command line to zero the disk so
i can sell the thing and get on with linux on my new apple????? THANKS!
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<whatever> bs=16777216
where <whatever> is hda for the first drive (requiring repartiton), hda1
for the first partition, etc.
The bs= argument isn't needed, but it should make it run a little faster.
You use some large power of two for the value, that's 16*1024*1024 I have
used above.
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