-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:37 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: > Tuesday 02 December 2003 4:45 am, philip wrote: > > I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in > > my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question > > is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. > > Thanks > > Do what I did on the weekend, boot from pclinuxos live cd and after > mounting the drive use the shred facility in the super user file manager to > wipe everything, then reboot run hard drake from Mandrake disk 1 (any > recent version) and turn the entire drive into one large FAT 32 or ext2 > partition, then shut down and remove it or whatever you want.
Damn! That should have said diskdrake, not hard drake. Sorry about that. ther rest is accurate though. > Trust me; everything is "gone" enough for most people. A scanning > tunnelling electron microscope might find enough fragments to do a partial > reconstruction but you haven't pissed anyone _that_ powerful off enough for > them to bother. Have you? <g> > > Regards; > Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 11:02:19 up 18:53, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.11, 0.08 fortune: not found -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zNPVZqvqlrLPr5YRAox+AJ9NwWAsZnr4PT/j9e0ZOly/1m5TFgCeIsyA T+km6t2RYCzcR4e6MBrY+uw= =5E6f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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