14 Apr
2007
14 Apr
'07
6:37 p.m.
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