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

[Reindl Harald]

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

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