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Re: [PLUG] Hard Drive warranty RMA
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James Barrett wrote:
> You could also use badblocks(8) to overwrite the data on the disk.
> using 'badblocks -w /dev/sdX' will write a set of patterns to every
> block of the disk before reading them back and checking their
> consistency. This will effectively destroy every speck of data on the
> drive.
>
ah that's right! i totally forgot you could do that. thanks james!
golly, i bet we could take over the world together if we applied ourselves.
(now accepting applications for henchmen. and women. henchpersons.)
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