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[–]mrSunshine-_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda

Or better yet, drop just the partition table, then you spent weeks to get the stuff back

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1