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[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.
- Subject: [ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.
- From: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:25:32 -0400
- In-reply-to: <20100421211142.LVSK1.2621253.root@mp11>
- References: <20100421211142.LVSK1.2621253.root@mp11>
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 21:11 -0400, Doug McNash wrote:
> Yep, but Chris says he did an lseek to write over the file again which
> is probably fast enough to only write over the buffer, not the disk.
I neglected to say that in the for loop I did a fsync(2). That is
supposed to flush the buffers to disk. Does it really though?