At 10:47 03/14/2005 -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: >begin quoting gossamer axe as of Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:14:23AM -0800: >> If I remember correctly, I used to read these files I found on old >> BBSes, The Sysops had some sort of program or DOS batch file that >> would format the hard drive with a command, in case the FBI was after >> them for their Pirate BBSes. Maybe a little paranoia mixed in there >> too =] > >nohup sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda & exit > >-Stewart "Not tried it. Ought to try it. Surely it'll work?" Stremler
This doesn't work the way you want. dd will write starting from the front of the disk. It will overwrite something that the system needs which then causes a crash before the disk is wiped, thus leaving recoverable data on the disk. Gus "Un-serendipitous" Wirth -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
