Destroy GPT partition scheme absolutely, how?

O'Connor, Daniel darius at dons.net.au
Tue Sep 27 05:06:41 UTC 2016


> On 27 Sep 2016, at 14:28, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> dd of 2MB of zeros to the start and end of the disk. That will destroy
> pretty much everything. For SSDs, sometimes you can do the same with
> TRIMs only faster (other times they are slower or unreliable).

Yeah, but it would be nicer to not have to know that particular magic incarnation :)

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