I love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You’re essentially running DBAN at that point, no?
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BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 days agoSometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Morphit@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Hmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root; sudo fstrim -av; sudo rebootSomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Indeed. We don’t want to preserve the “Radically Overused Obsolete Term” Database
crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 day ago
This is the way 👌
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Didn’t work for me. Had to add
&& sudo reboot