Am 07.06.2009 um 19:27 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Kevin Krieser a écrit : > >> >> I've done the zeroing out thing on mounted filesystems before when I >> wanted to move the contents of a drive to another. zeroing out >> before >> would be best if you planned to do an install, then back it up for >> later. Otherwise, you end up with a lot of unused space that has >> remnants of old data scattered around. > > Yeah, but I'm a bit confused here. How would you go about it from a > LiveCD ? 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). Of course, dd on the device wipes everything, so you do it before installing OS+applications. Rainer