Re: Unix Question

From: Brian L. Anderson <andersob_at_darton.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:11:23 -0400
Message-ID: <40E0513B.1040601@darton.edu>

I hope at least someone else find's it very funny that this thread has now reached "How to improve your scripts for wiping out your computer."

Now what's that we have to reference to end the thread, nuclear weapons or something?

wrote:
> As with iterative rm, that dd would have to exclude the mount stream running
> down to the dd command and save that for last if you really wanted to flat
> the system. So I think iterative rm with rm excluded is the superior system
> destroyer. The dd from null is probably faster though, so as a performance
> study a combination using dd for all but the mount streams including dd and
> then iterative rm restricted from deleting rm on the rm mount stream might
> be best.
>
> Oh! -- maybe copy dd to /, then whack all but / until the end. Really
> getting rid of EVERYTHING is a bit trickier that it seems at first glance.
>

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