On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Chris Frederick wrote: > Um... couldn't you just get any bootable linux distro, and do a > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hd?? > or > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd?? > and achieve the same effect? Why would you need 50 passes? Isn't one > enough? > > Chris Frederick Well, maybe you don't need 50, but more than one at least. Here's the first link I found from this mailing list. I know this has been discussed multiple times, but I can't seem to find the right words to search for in google. http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/2002-November/054257.html ------------- Justin Kremer <kremer at ringworld.org> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list