Re: [SLUG] formatting hard drive

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 15:24:43 EST


gregory ogden wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a command for wiping a hard drive clean
> of all data?. I want to start over installing the OS
> with a clean slate. I'm a complete novice, running
> Fedora and having some problems, so would like to
> start over. Thanks

You can use fdisk to delete partitions on a disk. E.g., "fdisk /dev/hda"
then delete them one by one.

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