[Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

[Jim Hartley]

Depending on exactly what you want, you might also take a look at 
qparted, lets you shrink, expand, or move partitions.

Jim Hartley

Kevin Korb wrote:
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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
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> 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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