Am 07.06.2009 um 19:54 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > 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? Yup. If you have the time, you can experiment with the blocksize and see where the throughput is best. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-09/msg01375.html Rainer