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Anyone Notice there is no Erase Disk?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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I had my old PB drive collecting dust and I wanted to erase it. Whoa I was not expecting the pain this was going to cause. All the permissions and invisible directories. There is no erase disk anywhere, I can understand that they will make one soon (hint hint Apple) with an Authorization system. In the mean time I su'd and did some rm -rf stuff..whew its scary  What kinda of erase dialog/system should we expect? maybe in Prefs? or another finder menu item?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Staffs, UK
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You could always use the DiskTools application, in the Utilities folder.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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Thanks Gee4orce, I checked in the Diskutility.app but I didn't think it would be a menu item. I was looking for a button. I like this method of Erasure... It's just not very obvious.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
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[localhost~]%su
[localhost~]%rm -r /
All gone! 
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signatures are a waste of bandwidth
especially ones with political tripe in them.
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