I have used it to zero entire drives or partitions. generally, zero-ing an 
entire drive often takes care of some problems that try to hide in the boot 
sectore or partition tables (such as particular worms).

also, zero-ing a drive is much like low level formatting, only without 
reqriting the track ID's.

and yes, it will work on just about any FS type.

Technomage Hawke

On Sunday 27 June 2004 05:28 pm, ec wrote:
> What is the purpose of this command?
>
> What is the difference between it and just formatting
> and reinstalling?
>
> Can it be done on multipartitioned hard drives and
> what partitons(s) does it do it to? The whole drive,
> or just the specified one(s)?
>
> Could you just wipe ot one partition like say, hde5?
>
> What about a v-fat partition? Or does it only work on
> linux types?
>
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