Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoGoogle's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failurewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1513arrow-down18
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minus-squareBrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·12 hours agoSometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.
minus-squareiamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·11 hours agoDidn’t work for me. Had to add && sudo reboot
minus-squareAssassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 hours agoI love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You’re essentially running DBAN at that point, no?
minus-square Morphit @feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-211 hours agoHmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo reboot
Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.
Didn’t work for me. Had to add
&& sudo rebootI love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You’re essentially running DBAN at that point, no?
Hmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo reboot