From nobody Wed Jun 25 13:54:38 2025 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4bS3Gd0PDnz604pD for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:54:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from polarian@polarian.dev) Received: from mail.polarian.dev (mail.polarian.dev [IPv6:2001:8b0:57a:2385::8]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4bS3Gc2M2sz3K7G for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:54:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from polarian@polarian.dev) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=polarian.dev header.s=polarian header.b=SKonGywg; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of polarian@polarian.dev designates 2001:8b0:57a:2385::8 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=polarian@polarian.dev; dmarc=pass (policy=reject) header.from=polarian.dev Received: from Hydrogen (_gateway [192.168.2.1]) by mail.polarian.dev (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C874C10A1CF1 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:54:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/relaxed; d=polarian.dev; s=polarian; t=1750859679; bh=m55LQyaunLPFY63zKjS2lnUOmM2L4Izw1FzXMW+7ixs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=SKonGywgtU4q5OrEzISB85alldPI+foreNNi46jNIp5+eqEJr9z4T9GFpwU1XYsgW xIxUrE+3A3RL2so1vl3p+AqYgzX2Cu5o9mJXsgALIcQsxgZDv7RQgRpObGEWKncSLI SuVPF0BjoTGE5LTpAf3fE6ISaq5OA5pfDnqV2u9Y= Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:54:38 +0100 From: Polarian To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wiping a disk partition Message-ID: <20250625145438.5d5db925@Hydrogen> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.21.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd14.2) List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamd-Result: default: False [1.01 / 15.00]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[0.995]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.84)[0.837]; MID_RHS_NOT_FQDN(0.50)[]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[polarian.dev,reject]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.32)[-0.321]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2001:8b0:57a:2385::8]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[polarian.dev:s=polarian]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20712, ipnet:2001:8b0::/34, country:GB]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[polarian.dev:+] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4bS3Gc2M2sz3K7G X-Spamd-Bar: + Good afternoon, It depends on what you want. Do you want to destroy the data (overwrite it) or do you simply want to wipe the partition (data still physically there though)? Take care, -- Polarian Jabber/XMPP: polarian@icebound.dev