Trying to format my HDDs...

[Ben Hodgson]

Well, I tried it last night and it took just over two hours to do a 16GB
Maxtor HDD on a PIII 733MHz with 256MB RAM on the auto-nuke setting, if that
helps.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Markus Kolb" <ubuntu-ml at tower-net.de>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: Trying to format my HDDs...


> Lawrence MacIntyre wrote on Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 16:39:04 -0500:
> > I'm assuming that you asked the wrong question, and that you don't
> > actually want to format the disk, but you do want to remove all of the
> > data on them.  If so, you want the following:
> >
> > Darik's Boot and Nuke <http://dban.sourceforge.net>
>
> Is it faster than 'dd'?
>
> Markus
>
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