On 18/03/2017 02:55, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 03/17 11:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Friday 17 Mar 2017 19:10:03 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> As Grant said, we don't really know what you are up to from the given >>> information. >> >> In particular, at least some of us don't know what you mean by a root. >> >> -- >> Regards >> Peter >> >> > > Hi, > > I want to wipe a partition from old stuff, so that: > 1) a new mkfs.whatever will not revive the old stuff > 2) the wipe does not to be "cryptograohically secure" (i.e. dd > if=/dev/zero of=/dev/partition) > 3) only the contents of partition and nothing else will be wiped > > I will try to mkfs.ext4 the partition as Nils suggested. > Ext4 was also the previous fs.
2) will do what you want -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
