wiping all partitions from a disk.

["Brent M. Clements" <bclem rice edu>]

Anyone have a quick way to wipe all linux partitions from a disk?

Ie, I know I can do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024k but that takes
a while.

What utility does redhat use in it's anaconda installer that wipes all
partitions fast?

Thanks,
Brent

Brent Clements
Linux Technology Specialist
Information Technology
Rice University

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