Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?
On 04/05/2018 12:59 AM, Todd Chester wrote:
If you what to completely blank a disk out, don't mess around
with that
operating system whose name I shall not mention. (I hear it is slow,
buggy, and expensive.) Stay in Linux.
# dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
If I understood the original post correctly, the person was wanting to
blank the free space, not erase the whole disk. The problem was that
the program used was a secure eraser which filled the blank space with
random data which doesn't compress.