On Sep 21, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Sunnz wrote:

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> OK I am trying to completely erase the data of a hard disk so I though
> I can just do `dd if=/dev/arandom of=/dev/rwd0c` as to my
> understanding that is the entire hard disk (slice c) of wd0 in 'raw'
> mode?
>
> But that dd refuse to do it.


If you just want to erase the disk securely and don't really need to  
run OpenBSD, check out http://www.dban.org/

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Johan