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2020 Sep 14
6
erasing a disk
Folks I've encountered situations where I want to reuse a hard-drive. I do not want to preserve anything on the drive, and I'm not concerned about 'securely erasing' old content. I just want to be able to define it as an Physical Volume (in a logical volume set), or make it a ZFS disk, or sometimes make it a simple EXT3, ExFAT or NTFS disk. However, old
2020 Sep 14
0
erasing a disk
what if you just dd the first 1GB of the disk and the last GB of the disk (the last because of RAID signatures of some controllers that write to the end of the disk) Look at this article and modify accordingly https://zedt.eu/tech/linux/using-dd-to-repeatedly-erase-a-specific-range-of-sectors-on-the-hard-disk/ Also, use wipefs -a (Gordon Messmer answered faster than me) On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:18 PM david <david at daku.org> wrote: > Folks > > I've encountered situations where I want to reuse...