Sujet : Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill
De : T (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (T)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacy alt.comp.os.windows-10Date : 28. Jun 2025, 20:53:51
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On 6/28/25 3:41 AM, Daniel70 wrote:
On 28/06/2025 6:04 pm, T wrote:
I have even used dd to zero out flash drive that
Windows coughs on.
>
if=/dev/zero
UMMM! (Trying to learn ...) 'if=' is (usually) the input file which is (usually) to be copied somewhere (of=) .... so wouldn't 'if=/dev/ zero' (potentially) ZERO the Hard Drive rather than the USB Drive??
Hi Daniel,
"of=" would be the root of your flash drive.
To zero out a flash drive (removes any preinstalled nonsense)
[1] on a Linux machine, open a terminal and su to root.
"#" in the prompt means root
[2] find the scsi drive designation for your flash drive
two (of many) ways:
A. ls -al /dev/sd* before inserting the flash drive
and after. It is the one that is missing, then
appears when you insert your flash drive
B. gparted
your flash drive will show up with some like
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 Jun 28 12:42 /dev/sdb
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 17 Jun 28 12:42 /dev/sdb1
you want the drive itself (/dev/sdb), not any partition
(/dev/sdb1)
[3] once you have figure out what the root of your flash drive
is, run Data Destroyer (dd) on it:
# dd status=progress bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd[x]
replace sd[x] with the root of your flash drive
status=progress gives an optional fancy display of byte transferred.
bs is block size and is optional, 1M means 1 megabyte at a time
if is the input file. /dev/zero gives an endless supply of zeros
of is the output file/device
Now you can go into gparted and set up your flash drive
however you want it.
HTH,
-T
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