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On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:05 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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> I used unetbootin to install Damn Small Linux on the 512MB bootable |
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> USB key, and I'm booted into it. /dev/sda is my HD, and I'm running: |
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda |
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> The USB LED is blinking rapidly, but the HD LED is showing no |
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> activity. Is there any way to tell if the HD is being wiped? |
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I hate to say this, but are you wiping the wrong device?! |
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There should be pretty much 0 activity on the USD stick (/dev/zero is |
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kernel) and plenty of writes to the HDD. |
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