[Linux-disciples] Low-level reformatting under Linux

[Adam Kessel]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:13:40PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Are there any good free-as-in-free-speech-AND-beer utilities
> to low-level-reformat a disk? I may be encountering a disk
> tomorrow that's 100% Windows, and I may need to reclaim part
> of that for Linux; I'd rather not pay for the utility.

Do you mean reformat or repartition?  Why can't you just cfdisk and
mkfs.ext3?  Are you concerned about traces of old data?
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