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Maybe:

yes | dd bs=3D1000k of=3D/dev/sdXa

can do the job. They won't be one's, but this data will be different
than zero.

HTH

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:10:28AM -0500, Todd Gruhns Acct wrote:
>=20
> In a book i have been reading, they mention wiping your disk partitions
> using the line :
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> dd bs=3D1000k </dev/zero >/dev/sdXa=20
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> Where X is the drive number. NORTON utilities, when wiping has options su=
ch as
> secure wipe, and govt wipe, and military wipe. Norton wipes by writing a =
string of
> 0, then a string of 1, then a string of 0, repeating the process different
> numbers of times for different levels of security.
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> OK, so why have we NOT GOT a /dev/one so we can do the same thing?
> --=20
> Have you ever killed anybody? Well I hurt somebodies feelings once...--R.=
 Deniro--

--=20
Of course it runs NetBSD - http://www.netbsd.org
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