On Sep 20, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Sunnz wrote:
OK I am trying to completely erase the data of a hard disk so I though
I can just do `dd if=/dev/arandom of=/dev/rwd0c` as to my
understanding that is the entire hard disk (slice c) of wd0 in 'raw'
mode?
But that dd refuse to do it.
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This is running off a OpenBSD 4.3 CD
Coincidentally I just noticed this thread this afternoon as I was
doing the exact same thing to a box at work.
I booted a Sunfire V120 off a 4.4 snapshot CD and dd if=/dev/zero of=/
rsd0 was humming along quite nicely when I left this evening.
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bk
