Hello,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:30:56 -0800, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gus Wirth wrote: > > At 10:47 03/14/2005 -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >nohup sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda & exit > > This doesn't work the way you want. dd will write starting from the front > > of the disk. It will overwrite something that the system needs which then > > causes a crash before the disk is wiped, thus leaving recoverable data on > > the disk. > > Have you actually tried that? dd already has the libraryies it needs > loaded. /dev/random is already opened, so removing it won't harm > anything. > > You may run into problems if the system has to access a swapped-ou > process after the swap partition/file has been obliterated. And/or if the kernel tries to swap out a process, and finds that swap no longer exists. Steve -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
