[plug] Wiping disks properly

[Craig Ringer]

> I want it as a corporate solution though, something I can hand a ludite to
> wipe 50 machine which may have multiple partitions, filesystems and
> harddrives. For this I need to propose something with a "nice" interface or
> a commercial solution will be the one considered.

Create a basic boot disk, and have init be a shell script that asks
"are you really sure you want to erase all data on the machine"
then if y does
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

Idiot proof, yes? Barring someone having set up a cdrom as primary 
master that is.

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