> If you just want to wipe a disk, you shouldn't be using /dev/urandom for that > purpose.
If you want to wipe a disk issue a security erase command via hdparm. There is no guarantee that simply writing crap all over it will re-use the same sectors of physical media, and for a flash drive it causes massive wear and takes forever while a security erase is normally near immediate. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
