[Gllug] wiping a partition

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:31:33PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> I want to eliminate all the data on three large partitions to
> make way for two Debian based distros which apparently
> will not install to partitions already containing data.
> 
> Some time ago, I kept an email stating how this can be done
> but now cannot find it.
> 
> Will someone kindly let me know how to do this.

Erm:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XXX bs=1024k

where XXX is replaced by something like 'hda' (make sure you're wiping
the right partition, because there's no going back once you've done
this!)

Rich.

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