YOLO (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 
YOLO
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They call it disk destroyer for a reason.

There's nothing specially destructive about dd. It's just a program that opens a file, and if you tell it to open a device file and it's got permission to write to it, it'll write to it.

You can just as easily overwrite a disk's contents with anything else that will open a file and write to it.

# cp /dev/urandom /dev/sda

will wipe your drive with random data in the same way that

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

will.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments