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2. List of disk partitioning software - Wikipedia

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   Free software No MS-DOS: GNOME Disks: Red Hat: Free software Yes Linux: GNU Parted CLI-only (GUIs: Gparted, QtParted) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux GParted (GUI for GNU Parted) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux (Live CD is independent) March 28, 2022 gdisk (GPT fdisk) Roderick W. Smith Free software Yes Linux, macOS, Windows

3. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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   Darik's Boot and Nuke, also known as DBAN / ˈ d iː b æ n /, is a free and open-source project hosted on SourceForge. [2] The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC.

4. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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   A block, a contiguous number of bytes, is the minimum unit of storage that is read from and written to a disk by a disk driver.The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes (e.g. the IBM 350 disk storage unit (of the late 1950s) block size was 100 six-bit characters) but starting with the 1301 [8] IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes: a particular track could have blocks ...

5. Rufus (software) - Wikipedia

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   Rufus was originally designed [5] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, [6] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [ 7 ] ), was released on December 4, 2011, with originally ...

6. List of data-erasing software - Wikipedia

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   Disk Utility: Apple: Commercial proprietary software: OS X: Yes external [6]? Eraser: Heidi Computers Limited GNU GPL v3: Windows: Yes external [7]? HDDerase: University of California, San Diego: Freeware: OS independent, based on DOS: No internal [8]? hdparm: Mark Lord BSD license: Linux: Yes internal [9] not directly supported without ...

7. fdisk - Wikipedia

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   fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning. It has been part of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and early versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as certain ports of FreeBSD, [2] NetBSD, [3] OpenBSD, [4] DragonFly BSD [5] and macOS [6] for compatibility reasons. Windows 2000 and its successors have replaced fdisk with a more advanced tool ...