wiping a drive with dd

Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). -Grant ___

Re: wiping a drive with dd

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:55:41PM -0500, gpeel wrote: Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Yes. jerry

Re: wiping a drive with dd

gpeel gp...@thenetnow.com writes: When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Assuming you mean /dev/zero, yes. -- Lowell

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I would use System Rescue boot disk from www.sysresccd.org It has gparted which I would use to delete all partitions and create new. Thats considering you have a functioning pc to access the net and burn an iso with. Derek Original Message Subject:wiping a drive

Re: wiping a drive with dd

Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1m (or at least 64k for block size, unless you have too much time. Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue