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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale | ||
| Date: | Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:59:34 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20091219105915.1c9bc778@digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale by Grant |
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| 1 | On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:58:06 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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| 3 | > I checked on it after a few hours and it said "No space left on |
| 4 | > device" and the process had exited. I rebooted the system without the |
| 5 | > key inserted and unfortunately it came back up to the normal HD so |
| 6 | > nothing has been wiped. Any idea what I did wrong? |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong device. |
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| 10 | Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=4096 speeds it up quite |
| 11 | significantly. |
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| 14 | -- |
| 15 | Neil Bothwick |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!! |
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| [gentoo-user] Re: dd - bytes at a time | Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale | Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> |