On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 11:17 PM George N. White III <gnwiii(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 8:51 PM ToddAndMargo via users <
users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an upcoming appointment with a customer
> who wants a number of his old computers
> (mostly iMacs) removed from service.
>
> [...]
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd[x]
An old iMac has been running this (x=a) for over 12 hours here using
thr “rescue” option from an old linux installer CD. I’ve done this with
newer Macs, but just left it running overnight, so not sure how long it
took.
My dd process ran out of space 24 hours after I started it, on a 250G drive.
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George N. White III