From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLx25-0002ic-Rv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:59:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB2D9E0729; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E50E0729 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B26164886E7 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:58:21 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:59:15 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale Message-ID: <20091219105915.1c9bc778@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10912181758q15cb100k87bb42634d799cee@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10912161049v3768a3f8m60dddbae4b8777b@mail.gmail.com> <15719e8b0912161154o6f634c9bk6b1f9e3f9204ac20@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10912180908x6fa39920k7048c718a16a018b@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10912181505h7993994h4bf342380654dbf6@mail.gmail.com> <4B2C3187.7060701@cox.net> <49bf44f10912181758q15cb100k87bb42634d799cee@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs39 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/CJ2qqLr3OMTwt2ag.2odCDP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 8eb8b46a-7c99-4e14-9299-e00a6594b6c8 X-Archives-Hash: ccba5caa0b2d737df2a373727316b2b6 --Sig_/CJ2qqLr3OMTwt2ag.2odCDP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D4096 speeds it up quite significantly. --=20 Neil Bothwick Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!! --Sig_/CJ2qqLr3OMTwt2ag.2odCDP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksssgMACgkQum4al0N1GQN97gCfWNQ6uxslqphU6yprMngrtrX8 F64AoJ/mzVKco7nOVChcg8V1hXHpBykB =7b9f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/CJ2qqLr3OMTwt2ag.2odCDP--