> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:48:16PM -0800, Chris Mauricio wrote:
>> On Monday 14 March 2005 12:36, Chris Mauricio wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>> > > > >nohup sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda & exit
>> > > > >
>> > > > >-Stewart "Not tried it. Ought to try it. Surely it'll work?" Stremler
>> <SNIP>
>> >
>> > Hang on- I have a box that needs reloading anyways
>> > I will get back to y'all in a few.
>> >
>> well, so far, not impressed. here is what I ran:
>> nohup dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda & exit
>>
>> Was this suposed to be...fast? How long should I try to hold off the feds
>> with
>> a can of fresca and a stale hotdog to tide me over? ...'cause, very little
>> disk activity going on here.
>>
>> ( still can login and browse the system )
>>
I'm guessing that you ran out of random data. It might go faster if you play
with
your keyboard. How fast can you type? :-)
Wade Curry
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