From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 20:49:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8C58106566C for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mokomull@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612FC8FC14 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werg1 with SMTP id g1so6670056wer.13 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:49:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=hDNSTHdz941Xaqo8d90y+NNP5faHTXGUMxtJ9YeoCDk=; b=SmFTjRqd777a/4gQ9qgVdK7/f1jki5CKvubYvlaDS5DXuplcLdFPPyudjN8cgs3csM zeQ8gNEXjopq21w+CIg30OPpvC21OdA8YP9GA3Gk0YHB9Paw6u/Pea1LO9L8l44SCVDb TB754ruHUJpd60gUBOe8Jyrc2HnqBuCvfG2Rc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.131.95 with SMTP id l73mr8021400wei.39.1327524595231; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.106.141 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:49:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20120124150217.GA10327@icarus.home.lan> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:49:54 -0800 Message-ID: From: Matt Mullins To: Fritz Wuehler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zpool detach pool device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:56 -0000 On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote: > Just use dd and avoid the hassle of downloading and burning a cd that does > dd. dban is nice if you have to do a garage full of machines or are a > Windows victim but if you know your way around UNIX why bother with dban? On occasion, I have had the need to perform the "DoD Short Wipe" within DBAN; this is something a simple "dd if=/dev/zero" won't get you. Of course, you can use shred from coreutils to do that from the command line if you want. -- Matt Mullins