Hi, I need a hard drive zero-ed. I know, that there's partition magic 8.0 on windows that can do it, but I can't find anything for linux.
It's an old drive with winxp installed previously (ntfs) that completely broke down. Thanks
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disc zero-ing on linux
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cat /dev/zero > /dev/hdb
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pv /dev/zero > /dev/hdb
Be careful to really know for sure that you're zero'ing the correct disk! Usually, doing 'cfdisk /dev/hdb' for example will show you a partition table, so you can identify the disk.