I think wiping the drive that you booted from will lead to an odd
experience at best. Suggest the flash drive method.

Although my most satisfying drive destructions have been with a sledge
hammer.

Rod

On 2/4/24 06:36, Bob Scofield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to recycle an old desktop. I'm planning to wipe the hard drive
> with this command:
>
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M
>
> Can I just run this from the command line? Or do I have to use a flash
> drive with Linux on it and run it from the command line of the Linux
> on the flash drive?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
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