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Wipe entire disk using the dd command
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
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Wipe entire disk using the dd command

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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