/harry-webster.co(.uk|m)/ » hard drive http://www.harry-webster.co.uk Harry Webster's Blog Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:43:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Cleaning a Disk http://www.harry-webster.co.uk/2010/02/cleaning-a-disk/ http://www.harry-webster.co.uk/2010/02/cleaning-a-disk/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:58 +0000 Harry http://www.harry-webster.co.uk/?p=70 To keep a hard drive healthy you should “use” it, by this I mean filling the disk with data and then cleaning up the used space (giving all the sectors activity). The easiest way i know of doing this is by writing zeros to the disk, this should also be done when selling hard drives.

In Linux run:

$ dd if=/dev/zero > tmp.file ; rm tmp.file
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