[PLUG] Disk Wipe on Linux

[Galen Seitz]

AthlonRob <athlonrob at axpr.net> wrote:

> I did, some time ago, want to create a /dev/one so I could do a
> /dev/zero, /dev/one, then /dev/urandom a few times to shake things up,
> but never got it off the ground (I think it was before I left for BMT)
> and haven't gotten interested in it since.  :-)
> 

I asked about this a couple of years ago.  Unfortunately I didn't post
what I ended up using.  A quick search suggests this:

  tr \\0 \\377 < /dev/zero


galen