oriond@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 months agoWhat is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?oriond@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 months agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareHotzilla@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agohdparm --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --sanitize-crypto-scramble /dev/sda Modern disks have encryption enabled in disk level. This will change the encryption key on the disk, meaning that in seconds all data in the disk is in unrecoverable state. This is way better than writing the whole disk 0’s or rm -fr /
hdparm --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --sanitize-crypto-scramble /dev/sda
Modern disks have encryption enabled in disk level. This will change the encryption key on the disk, meaning that in seconds all data in the disk is in unrecoverable state.
This is way better than writing the whole disk 0’s or rm -fr /