[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu Apr 22 20:02:29 EDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 19:54 -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> As I remember it, the reason for sync three times was to  
> ensure sufficient time for the sync to occur before issuing  
> the shutdown/umount. After all, it takes time even for a  
> speed typist to type 12 characters. Gives that slow  
> hardware a chance to catch up!
> 
> 

sync;sleep 1;sync;sleep 1;sync;sleep 1;reboot



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