tl;dr... > 3. When procceding to wipe the disk on my desktop (openbsd -current too) > I cound not do this. This time I could find sd5 using disklabel, but: > > # dd if=/dev/arandom of=/dev/sd5 bs=4096 > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > dd: /dev/sd5: No space left on device
see man disklabel, you need to put 'c' for whole disk, otherwise you created new file in /dev. > The same happen on rsd5. When trying to wipe just one partition: > > # dd if=/dev/arandom of=/dev/rsd5c > Operation not permitted > > The message show after just some seconds (the disk has 7.2GB) and the > partitions still there, so I know that dd did not work. > I thought it was something to do with my kern.securelevel, but when to > down from 2 -> 1 got the same permission problem: > > # sysctl kern.securelevel=1 > sysctl: kern.securelevel: Operationg not permitted man securelevel, you cannot decrease securelevel. in this case 'raw disks are always read-only'. welcome on the board, just do man help, man hier, man afterboot... j.
