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

[Alan Cox]

> >   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.

I think they make sense - secure erase erases your disk contents, its
indeed not something to play with !

dd isnt the right way to do it (in some cases like USB pen drives it may
be your only choice) and for ATA SSD's its not just the wrong way its a
very bad way to do it.