Also eliminate partition table?

jeopardyracing · 02-18-2005, 01:19 PM

If do this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1

have I zeroed the entire drive including the partition table?

david_ross · 02-18-2005, 01:21 PM

hda1 is only the first partition, you would need to do the whole drive.

jeopardyracing · 02-18-2005, 01:25 PM

So if I do the same command, but just use 'hda' have I nabbed everything on the entire disk, partition table included?

david_ross · 02-19-2005, 08:03 AM

It should do.

jeopardyracing · 02-21-2005, 06:21 AM

I formatted using Partition Magic, then used the dd command with just 'hda' and went back into Partition Magic and sure enough, there was nothing but unallocated space. Cool!