<div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Anthony Radzykewycz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu" target="_blank">anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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<b>x </b>bs=4k, or if you want random data written to it: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd<b>x</b> 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).</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Steve B <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steveb7@gmail.com" target="_blank">steveb7@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">ATA Secure Erase</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Oct 8, 2016 9:28 AM, "Michael" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_-2863426175832510566m_3089905350586589027m_-7964111112639608289gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div>Could someone help?</div></div></div></div>
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