oriond@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoWhat is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?message-squaremessage-square142fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down19
arrow-up1155arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?oriond@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square142fedilink
minus-squareDehydrated@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·2 years agoProbably dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda or whatever your system volume is
minus-squaregens@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 years agoPosible to recover data, use /dev/urandom.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·2 years agoOnly on very old hard disks, on newer disks there’s no difference between overwrite patterns
minus-squaregorysubparbagel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoWith wear levelling on SSDs you may be able to recover some of the data
minus-squaregrabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoI did have RH Linux die while updating core libs a very long time ago. It deleted them and the system shut down. No reboot possible. I eventually (like later that day) copied a set of libs from another rh system and was able to boot and recover. Never used rh by choice again after that.
Probably dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda or whatever your system volume is
Posible to recover data, use /dev/urandom.
Only on very old hard disks, on newer disks there’s no difference between overwrite patterns
With wear levelling on SSDs you may be able to recover some of the data
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I did have RH Linux die while updating core libs a very long time ago. It deleted them and the system shut down. No reboot possible. I eventually (like later that day) copied a set of libs from another rh system and was able to boot and recover.
Never used rh by choice again after that.