On Friday 27 August 2010, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban > > 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says > > starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. > > Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive > > menu. > > > > Now that I've disabled the non-existant floppy drive, at least it does > > say "to save the log file again, press enter".... > > I usually use dban but if it's not handy use a liveCD (me usually > Ubuntu) and use dd: > > Assuming the drive to kill is /dev/sda: > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda This command will take forever and ever and ever (reads against /dev/random blocks as the kernel runs out of entropy). /dev/urandom would be better but still not very fast. To get some speed you'd have to do something like: 1) save a megabyte of /dev/urandom in a file 2) while true ; do dd file to dev ; done Or run some dban-like program instead of dd. /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100827/7524fce4/attachment-0004.sig>