On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:58:06 -0800, Grant wrote:

> I checked on it after a few hours and it said "No space left on
> device" and the process had exited.  I rebooted the system without the
> key inserted and unfortunately it came back up to the normal HD so
> nothing has been wiped.  Any idea what I did wrong?

Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong device.

Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=4096 speeds it up quite
significantly.


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Neil Bothwick

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