Boot nuke

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, if you can just use standard LInux tools, I'd suggest simply
running the command:

badblocks -w

Thomas Stivers writes:
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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:13:01 AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > I think we know what you want. The question isn't what you want, but how
> > this technology you're trying to use actually works. Short of going and
> > doing the investigation for you, I don't know as I (or anyone else),
> > could answer you. It should be quite evident that none of us here use
> > this thing, so we can't just tell you off the top of our heads.
> 
> I looked at the site a little without much enlightenment as to what is
> under the hood of this package, but I didn't try all that hard.
> Regardless of how it works behind the scenes though you are going to
> have to modify the kernel of the boot disk and then rebuild the disk to
> get speakup working. If the issue is standardization on this particular
> system for wiping hard drives will the people who say you *must* use
> dban permit you to use a modified version of it. If they will let you
> modify the source and recompile then they might as well allow you to use
> other tools to do the same job, so I think your going to need to check
> with the powers that be to see if any modification would be a violation
> or exactly what is going on.
> 
> - -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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