On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Logan Tygart wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:49 -0800, gregory ogden wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Is there a command for wiping a hard drive clean
> > of all data?. I want to start over installing the OS
> > with a clean slate. I'm a complete novice, running
> > Fedora and having some problems, so would like to
> > start over. Thanks
>
> There is always my favorite:
>
> rm -rf /
Leaves the partition data and the filesystem intact, and it's slower than
umount /dev/hda1 # or whichever partition
mkfs -t <whatever> /dev/hda1
mount /dev/hda1 # if it's listed in /etc/fstab
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