Re: Erasing disks with OpenBSD

["Joseph C. Bender" <benderjc_(_at_)_benderhome_(_dot_)_net>]

At 06:59 PM 10/16/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Use something like:
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{diskdevice}
>
>eg. if you wanted to erase your second scsi disk (sd1):
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd1c
>
	Just my $0.02US worth, but you want to use the raw disk device, rather
than the character device, otherwise buffering can occur.

So it'd be dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd1c in the above example.



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