Re: [NF] has anyone played with Linux on a thumb drive?

Thanks. But do you need a special tool if you used /dev/random as input to the dd command? Of course, you are to run run dd if=/dev/random multiple times.... ;)

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:

While dd is okay to blank out a disk, extreme techniques could still recover some data. You might want to check out "scrub" also available in most Linux distros, and some live CD/DVD/USB sticks: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/scrub.1.html