Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> I'm having no luck finding hits for "wipe drive" or "zero drive" in >>> the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this >>> question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a >>> USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I >>> was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've >>> tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have? >> >> Will... >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk >> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1m > > bs may be smaller but not the default 512 bytes. it's a block size. > having very small block will make the process slow > >> ...work? >> >> Steve
I like this tool for "nuking" drives: http://dban.sourceforge.net/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
