erase it all - Don't tell them to run "rm -rf /" as root. That's too nice. There might be inodes left on the hard drive. M - devRant

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treeroot

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7y

The fource is strong with this one.
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tankmohit11

659

7y

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of bits suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
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treeroot

1479

7y

@tankmohit11 you nailed it
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Gophyr

1929

7y

@tankmohit11 Perfect comment for Star Wars day, thanks!
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Awlex

18362

7y

Top it with /dev/random
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Gophyr

1929

7y

@Awlex I'm more of a /dev/urandom kinda guy... :D
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Awlex

18362

7y

@tkenn20 Whatever fills the drive 😈
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CallbackHell

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7y

@tankmohit11 the force will take a bow for that comment
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Scrumplex

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7y

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
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CallbackHell

3021

7y

This is like the evil thread of Linux users
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Gophyr

1929

7y

@SubhrajyotiSen Sometimes evil of this magnitude is necessary. Although usually I only let my original command run just long enough to thoroughly zero the partition table to prepare for installation of a new OS.
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Numinex

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7y

Can you do a dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda? Or does that end up doing nothing?
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Gophyr

1929

7y

@Numinex I don't think that will work. Try it and see XD

Please don't actually try it.

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