Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

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On 08/29/2011 08:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 30.08.2011 02:05, schrieb Chris Adams:
>> Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
>>> If you want to erase your drive, issue a secure erase command. It's as
>>> simple as that.
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>> Is there a simple way to do that on Linux?
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> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/your/device
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  Check the documentation for:

        hdparm --secure-erase

    and/or  --security-erase-enhanced

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