If you are looking to destroy the data on the disk so that it is unrecoverable, use shred which should be on your knoppix disk see http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/coreutils_69.html
try the following procedure, attach the drive to your pc boot from the knoppix CD open a root shell run df; it will show you the mounted filesystems and the available free space on each remount the drive you want read/write (assuming the drive is /dev/hdb) mount -o rw /dev/hdb /mnt shred --verbose /dev/hdb If you just want to format it so that you can use the volume, either cfdisk or parted is what you want. On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 04:04:24 +0200, nyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have a 20 gig HD that I received as a gift. I'd like to do a Low Level > Format on it to clean it up. Anyone have suggestions on the best way to > achieve this? From what I've read online, Maxtor's LLF.exe is the way to go > but I can't find anywhere to D/L it. > > Thanks, > > Nyal R. Cammack > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PS: If I can ever get a Thursday off, I'd like to make a meeting......I'm good > for a coupla pizzas if I can get some help with an install (trying to migrate > to Linux from Windo$e, using Knoppix right now) > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
