At 12:30 03/14/2005 -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [snip] >> 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. > >Anyone want to test a theory at the next Linux Lab?
I've actually done this. That's how I know it will crash the system. Read the internym. Also, anyone who was in my class for Linux Cluster Technology at SDSU knows what happens. They also now know not to blindly trust the instructor :o Gus "Selected hda instead of hdg" Wirth -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
