On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:35, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello all:
I use suse linux 10.0 default.
My hard drive has damaged.
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Since the hard drive still has the warranty I would like to replace it. But before bringing back I'd like to remove some files from the drive. However I can't write or delete on the damaged harddisk since it always gets mounted as read-only.
How could I still erase the drive or force mounting the drive as read-write?
I've had to do this a few times recently myself.
If it is just erasing you want to do, what I did was make sure the drive was
unmounted and then used
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/