[TriLUG] HD Block Size (newbieish question)

B Smith bdsmith at nc.rr.com
Mon Jul 28 13:04:42 EDT 2003


I'm about to give an older computer to a friend of mine, but before I do 
so I would like to clean the hard drive thoroughly. I was thinking that 
a few ` dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda ` would do the job, but am unsure 
of what block size to use. Is there an easy way to find out the hard 
drive's block size?

Thanks a ton!




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