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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: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:05:50 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <20100421211142.LVSK1.2621253.root@mp11> <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 21:16 -0600, JK wrote:
>
> I learned that too, on my first day as a Unix (SunOS 4) admin in grad
> school. "sync ; sync ; sync ; shutdown -h now".
Same on SCO.
Why? Did shutdown not flush all buffers and umount the file system?
Maybe we were just being paranoid?