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[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.

Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.

Oops, I selected the laptops os drive....

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i've done something similar with dd before

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I once decided to actually use the dread command.

rm -rf /

I was nuking the OS, so fuck it.

Forgot to unmount my data first...