[Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

[Ram K. Singh]

Kevin,


I wish delete all partitions and make the disk one, as originally it was. Once I do that I can repartition, reformat and rewrite on the disk. I do not know what utility disk can be used to achieve that task. At the time that utility comes with installable distro that failes to allow me to do so.
 


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From: Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net>
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Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 7:29:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

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If you mean wipe a disk with no data you can simply overwrite it with
nulls like this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1024k

If you want to make sure the data is not recoverable then there are
utilities like shred that repeatedly overwrite the disk with different
kinds of garbage to make sure that people with a laboratory can't read it.

If you just want to delete the partitions go into fdisk or whatever
partitioner you use and delete them.

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:26:56 -0800 (PST)
"Ram K. Singh" <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If there is a way to unformat and unpartition a hard disk.
> 
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