[PLUG] Disk Wipe on Linux
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Apr 20 21:23:30 UTC 2005
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> I was assuming the tool would ignore the filesystem and just write patterns
> on the platters. Because of that, I didn't mention that the HD's are from
> Windows machines - one formatted during the installation of Win 2000, and
> the other with Win 98. I'm still assuming that won't matter.
Dick,
Doesn't matter. The linux kernel and boot loader are installed on the
floppy/cd-r so it doesn't see any OS on the hard drive.
Rich
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