Comment on Proper HDD clear process?

MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Cupcake1972@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/your-disk status=progress

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here’s why not

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    • Cupcake1972@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Huh, interesting indeed.

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      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, at least add blocksize.

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• bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love how straight up this is and how Linux allows it so easily.

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