On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:15:02PM +0200, Alberto Bert muttered: > On Sep 09 at 05:32PM-0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > Yes, I've got a one-liner for you: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 (or whatever partition Windows is on) > > What is it supposed to do? I don't know what /dev/zero is...
/dev/zero is a special device that contains an infinite store of zero bytes. Similar is /dev/random, which contains the system's entropy pool. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 will fill hda1 full of zeroes. Bye-bye Windows! ;-) -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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