[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Apr 21 21:25:32 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 21:11 -0400, Doug McNash wrote:
> Yep, but Chris says he did an lseek to write over the file again which
> is probably fast enough to only write over the buffer, not the disk.

I neglected to say that in the for loop I did a fsync(2).  That is
supposed to flush the buffers to disk.  Does it really though?




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