Re: Ways to destroy your partitions

["Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <Randy.Flood@scott.af.mil>]

Wouldn't it be be better to use /dev/random instead of /dev/zero?  Also, wouldn't it be best to repeat this several times per partition.  That way you could really wipe them out good.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Reindl [mailto:reindlnr@apci.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:36 PM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Ways to destroy your partitions


Quoting Jamon Terrell <JamonTerrell@charter.net>:

> curiosity@cat:~/#  for i in `df |awk '{ print $1}' | grep dev`; do  dd
> if=/dev/zero of=$i ; 
> done

*cough*

(alkorin@kliren:~)$ cat > ./do-not-run-DIE-DIE-CRASH-BOOM << "EOF"
> for i in `df | cut -f1 | grep dev`;
> do
>	echo dd if=/dev/zero of=$i
>	dd if=/dev/zero of=$i
> done;
> EOF
(alkorin@kliren:~)$ chmod a+x ./do-not-run-DIE-DIE-CRASH-BOOM
(alkorin@kliren:~)$ ./do-not-run-DIE-DIE-CRASH-BOOM
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda4
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb1
(alkorin@kliren:~)$

Byebye!

--
Nate Reindl  <<  Resident... something.

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