How would you do that ...

[C.J. Collier]

Maybe
for i in {1..9} ; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX ; done
just to be careful

Or /dev/urandom as if= value

On Mon, May 3, 2021, 11:14 Johan Wevers <johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 03-05-2021 15:39, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote:
>
> > and gave her drives a low-level format.
>
> I remember from the stone age (end 1980's begin 90's) that you could
> low-level format a disk with the DOS command debug by calling some BIOS
> routine by assembler routines.
>
> Modern harddisks don't allow that anymore. Should I assume that
> "low-level format" in this case means something like
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
>
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