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Superfud
108 days ago
ddrescue can read from /dev/urandom and write to any device. This can come in handy when you have a device with bad blocks but still would like to "shred" all the still writable parts of.
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NooneAtAll3
108 days ago
there's no point in writing actual random data - you won't be able to check correctness without another copy
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