>Marina Brown said:

>    When required to wipe a hard drive, i ussually do the following
> command 3 times.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

pn] I was thinking these might be easier to do in Linux than in Windows.
But I didn't know how dd handled "if" and "of" being of different sizes.
Does it write repeatedly until it runs out of room and then just terminate
normally?

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Peter Nosko


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