2008/6/23 Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure about flash memory, but for a harddrive, simple writing 0's >> is not a secure way to delete data. It can still be recovered. > > Actually, this is for an experiment that I want to start with a > "clean" device for. I'm not actually trying to obtain some level of > security.
Assuming you do not have some geom provider on said device # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da2 bs=1024k count=1 should wipe the partition table and superblock, which is good enough for an insecure erase. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
