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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:22:39 No.648399470 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>648400742

So /b/
I need to erase absolutely everything on my hard drive
I don't want anything at all left on this pc
Anything I can run through terminal?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:25:30 No.648399874 Report

Quoted By: >>648400068

sudo su -c "for i in {1..5}; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda; echo PASS $i COMPLETE; done echo FILLING DRIVE WITH ZEROES; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda; echo COMPLETE"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:25:31 No.648399875 Report

Quoted By: >>648400043

Do you want the hard drive to be still usable after the erasing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:26:39 No.648400043 Report

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>>648399875
Yeah,bootable from a USB or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:26:50 No.648400068 Report

Quoted By: >>648400197 >>648400414

>>648399874
woops, correction
sudo su -c "for i in {1..5}; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda; echo PASS $i COMPLETE; done; echo FILLING DRIVE WITH ZEROES; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda; echo COMPLETE"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:27:44 No.648400197 Report

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>>648400068
this will take a long time. wait until it says complete.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:29:14 No.648400414 Report

Quoted By: >>648400566 >>648400721

>>648400068
Do i copy and paste all of that into terminal?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:30:12 No.648400566 Report

Quoted By: >>648400641

>>648400414
yes. but make sure /dev/sda is the right drive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:30:40 No.648400641 Report

Quoted By: >>648400825

>>648400566
how do i do that?lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:31:14 No.648400721 Report

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>>648400414
again, this is going to take a very long time. just let it run and leave it alone until it says "COMPLETE" in the terminal

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:31:23 No.648400742 Report

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>>648399470
this is faster than dd or dban.

https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:31:51 No.648400825 Report

Quoted By: >>648400953

>>648400641
seriously get the fuck out. you want me to hold your hand?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:32:39 No.648400953 Report

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>>648400825
yes pls c:

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:32:54 No.648400982 Report

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delete system32

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