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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Hmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo reboot

Indeed. We don't want to preserve the "Radically Overused Obsolete Term" Database

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago

This is the way 👌