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+!! Erase a Harddrive (zero fill)
+This command attempts to write a zero at every writable location on your hard drive.
+Before using the command, I recommend triple checking that you are indeed erasing the correct harddrive!
+
+*dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M
+
!! Clone a Harddrive
Lets say that ''/dev/sda'' is the hdd we wish to clone, and that ''/dev/sdb'' is an empty drive that is to be used as the target.
