Wipe a drive clean
Steve Bertrand
steve at ibctech.ca
Mon Jun 23 20:01:04 UTC 2008
Andrew Falanga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having no luck finding hits for "wipe drive" or "zero drive" in
> the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this
> question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a
> USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I
> was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've
> tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have?
Will...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk
...work?
Steve
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