full-disclosure - Erasing a hard disk easily

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From: peak at argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz (Pavel Kankovsky)
Subject: Erasing a hard disk easily

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Aditya, ALD [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] wrote:

> is the addition of /dev/full sufficent ie /dev/zero alternated by
> /dev/full should do the trick ? ie write zeros and ones on the disk,

/dev/full is full of zeroes...like /dev/zero (opened for reading)

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."