[olug] [OT] IBM Authorized service center in Lincoln...

[Irish]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Kevin D. Snodgrass
<kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com>wrote:

> [snipped]
>
> Not trying to channel DYNATRON, but I think he might have been reminding
> you that handing the old hdd back to "someone" would include the data on
> that hdd.  After doing the image, install of new hdd, certifying everything
> works OK, you might want to wipe the old hdd.
>
> # dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX
>
> should work just fine...
>
>
> Kevin D. Snodgrass
>
>
Why settle for 'just fine'?
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