[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu Apr 22 17:05:50 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 21:16 -0600, JK wrote:
> 
> I learned that too, on my first day as a Unix (SunOS 4) admin in grad
> school. "sync ; sync ; sync ; shutdown -h now". 

Same on SCO.

Why?  Did shutdown not flush all buffers and umount the file system?
Maybe we were just being paranoid?




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