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

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 12:03 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 08:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> >>
> >> Is there a simple way to do that on Linux?
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/your/device
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>   Check the documentation for:
> 
>         hdparm --secure-erase
> 
>     and/or  --security-erase-enhanced
> 
>  gene/

How do you feel about the sentence in the man page jusr before thewse
options are described thus:
 These  switches  are  DANGEROUS  to experiment with, and might not work
       with every kernel.  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.


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