[PLUG] Getting a root prompt upon booting

[AthlonRob]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:14, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote:

> Or just use dd
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero  of=/dev/hda  bs=512
> 
> Let that run till done..

The data on the drive is still very easily recoverable after that,
however.  Shoot, you could probably do it from Windows.  :-)

I feel safe after dd'ing it with zero once, then with /dev/urandom
twice.  The data on the drive is still recoverable at that point... but
it's not quite so easy to get at it and beyond the capabilities of most
folks.  If you only want to run over it once, I'd go with urandom over
zero... I would think that would help at least a little bit.

Rob