erase drive

[Anthony Radzykewycz]

To address your question regarding getting label information, try the
'lsblk' command. I found that to be very useful for some things that I have
done.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Anthony Radzykewycz <
anthony.radzykewycz at gatewaycc.edu> wrote:

> Hiren's BootCD has a killdisk on it, if you're concerned with data
> leakage. Otherwise, something interesting that you could do is a dd wipe.
> Something along the lines of dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd*x *bs=4k, or if
> you want random data written to it: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd*x* bs=4k.
> Of course, you'd have to boot into a Linux instance to do this first
> (whether it be a live disc or an already installed machine).
>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Steve B <steveb7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ATA Secure Erase
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2016 9:28 AM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I got a drive I do not need anything that is on it. When I try to erase
>>> the contents of with 'rm -rf *' I get permission denied. The easy way is to
>>> format it but I can't remember the command to figure out what device it is
>>> labled as.
>>> Could someone help?
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