[PLUG] Disk wiping utility?

[Robert Citek]

On Jan 28, 2008 12:42 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen
<kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008 8:39 PM, kurt braget <joehaircut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm running out of memory on my laptop, which is partitioned with openSUSE
> > 10.3 and Windows. What I'd like to do is wipe the drive and do a clean
> > install of openSUSE 10.3 so I can use the whole hard drive. I don't even use
> > Windows on this machine, and I want to experiment with formatting the entire
> > hard drive. Anybody know of a good utility I could use to do this? Any
> > warnings? Thanks.
>
> # while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx; done

Why the infinite loop?  Wouldn't this work:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx

Regards,
- Robert