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ciao303 08-07-2010 01:36 AM
How do you do a complete HDD reformat from Ubuntu
 
....as in the hard drive being 100% erased as if

C:\>format/all

would be in MS DOS

Please and thank you.

P.S. Reminder: I have Ubuntu

sem007 08-07-2010 02:16 AM
you can use mkfs or mke2fs to build file system (as you say format ;))

tealio 08-07-2010 05:00 AM
If you want it like brand new,
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drive/to/be/zeroed


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