John R Pierce wrote: > fredex wrote: >> I'd guess that several passes with data from /dev/random might be >> a good thing. >> > > I've tried that, tis kinda brutally slow. dd if=/dev/random > of=/dev/sdb bs=1048576 You want to do "dd if=/dev/urandom of=...." for that... reading that much from random will deplete the entrophy pool. //Morten