wiping a drive with dd

gpeel gpeel at thenetnow.com
Sat Jan 10 09:55:42 PST 2009


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


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