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On 2017-03-17, tuxic@××××××.de <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Finally I moved to my new root and it seems to be $HOME |
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> enough to wiupe the old root. |
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> The old root is on a separate partition to which I will move |
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> the contents of the new root after wiping the new root. |
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> May be the following question is born from to much worry, but... |
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> First I thought: Mount the old root to a certain mountpoint |
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> somewhere, cd into it (as root) and do a rm -rf.... |
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> Then I saw symlinks directly pointing to /usr/lib... (for example) |
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> right into my new root... |
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> What is a recommended way to do what I am trying to do |
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It's not clear waht you are trying to do. Do you want to make sure |
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none of the old data can be recovered from the partition, or do you |
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just want the partition to contain an empty filesystem? |
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> without |
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> a) deleting anything outside the old root |
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> b) doing it not TOOO SLOW |
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> c) without leaving filesystem debris somewhere (for example after |
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> a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 count=1 bs=4096 |
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> d) anything else I forgot to think about |
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If you want to make sure no data is recoverable, then run 'wipe' on |
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the parition. If you just want an empty filesystem then just run |
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'mkfs -t<whatever>' on the partition. |
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