erase ubuntu

[James Dinkel]

Or if you wanted to really destroy all the data and make sure it is
unrecoverable, you could boot to a livecd, open a terminal and run this: "dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" making sure that /dev/sda is the harddisk that you
want to wipe out.

James

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jeff Folsom <jfolsom at scl.utah.edu> wrote:

> Boot from a live or alternative cd, run fdisk ( fdisk /dev/sda ) and
> delete all the partitions.  Once you write the changes, your drive will
> be cleaned for all intents and purposes.
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