lots of hassle for something. the easiest way is to create a boot floppy or cd with fdisk on it. fdisk the disk re-create partitions/filesystems and everything should be fine. you may also want to recreate the mbr on the disk.
brett
Dan Banyard wrote:
Hi,
Recently my linux box was hacked. I re-installed the OS but I am still having problems with the machine. At this stage I am unsure whether these problems are due a hardware or software issue.
I would like to totally wipe the hard disk and start again just in case the hackers have left any files. There seems to be loads of disk wiping utilities for Windows but I cannot see a way in which I can totally wipe the disk. Does anyone know of a utility or command?
Also does anyone know of a hardware checking facility? I am using SuSE 7.2. I am getting to the stage when I am considering junking the whole machine, but this seems a real waste. Comments from anyone who has been hacked on what they did?
Thanks in advance.
Dan
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