Question on shredding a terebyte drive

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> 
> Copying /dev/zero is a fast way to get an arbitrary amount of data (my
> standard anecdote involves emptying it, which I did once on an ancient
> system). It will be faster than copying a real file since the "read"
> part is free. So you do the rm, then:
> 
>   cat /dev/zero >/mnt/the-drive/ZEROES
> 
> On a conventionaly filesystem that will do what you outline.
> 
I like "dd if=/dev/zero of=<drive to be zeroed>". In any case, you
do not want to do this to a mounted drive. If you cant to use cat to
zero out a partation, try something like "cat /dev/zero > /dev/sde5"
to zero out the 5th partition on drive e.

Mikkel
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