[CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>> 3) # shred -vzn 65536 /dev/hda
> 
> For future reference, man shred:
> 
> NAME
>        shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it  harder
>        for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.

And doing that to /dev/hda would destroy everything on the whole drive, not just 
one partition.

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