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March 26, 2011

Zero out a drive in Linux

To zero out a drive:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

To make sure that the drive is really zeroed out:

dd if=/dev/sda | hexdump -C | head

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

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