[CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)
Niki Kovacs
contact at kikinovak.net
Sun Jun 7 17:54:53 UTC 2009
Rainer Duffner a écrit :
>
> Ever booted a live-CD?
> It also knows your disks (unless it's a server, except for maybe the
> CentOS LiveCD, most other's suck on servers - they simply don't
> recognize the controllers).
The question was not about the LiveCD, but more about the use of dd. So,
blanking a disk (say, /dev/hdc) from a LiveCD would amount to:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=20M
And that's it. Correct?
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