[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thu April 22 2010, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Why?  Did shutdown not flush all buffers and umount the file system?
> > Maybe we were just being paranoid?
>
> http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSync

well, let me just say this about that:)
I used to shut down a UNIX system in 5 seconds flat. The way I did it was:
# while true
do
sync
uadmin 2 0
done

CLICK ( machine shuts itself off)

that command dropped an AT&T unix box to its knees in 2 seconds. SO it was a 
real good idea to run the sync command FIRST.


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