Having fun destroying my system

[RedPandaFox]

BAH! I want to have fun with this PC before I format it in about an hour to sell.

I tried using
sudo rm -rf and all kinds of similar commands but it wont work! It just takes me to the next line without doing anything, anyone got any suggestions?

[frup]

cd /
sudo rm -rf *

[RedPandaFox]

root@myles-desktop:/home/myles# cd /
root@myles-desktop:/# sudo rm * -rf
rm: cannot remove directory `dev/shm': Device or resource busy
rm: cannot remove `dev/pts/0': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove `dev/pts/1': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove directory `dev/.static/dev': Device or resource busy
root@myles-desktop:/#

[nowin4me]

anyone got any suggestions?

Hammer, Blowtorch, Windows Vista (That will knacker it up), TNT and see what else is in your tool box.

EDIT try doing it without Root

[super.rad]

Do a file system check (fsck) on / while it's mounted, always warns that it can cause serious damage to mounted file systems and always wondered if it was true

[lukjad]

sudo rm -rf /
I think that is what you are looking for...

[RedPandaFox]

Hammer, Blowtorch, Windows Vista (That will knacker it up), TNT and see what else is in your tool box.

EDIT try doing it without Root
Need both HDDs intact for reformatting


Do a file system check (fsck) on / while it's mounted, always warns that it can cause serious damage to mounted file systems and always wondered if it was true

To late, already reformatted



sudo rm -rf /
I think that is what you are looking for...

Didn't work at all

I did something that lost my network so I just put in a live CD and formatted

[lukjad]

I'm starting to wonder if this will get us all in trouble... COC and all.

[3rdalbum]

In future, if anyone decides to destroy their system by doing sudo rm -rf /, then they should definitely make sure that they don't have any network resources or external disks connected!

[ronnielsen1]

BAH! I want to have fun with this PC before I format it in about an hour to sell.
Don't think you can sell it with a good OS installed?

[gvartser]

Ops

[gvartser]

This could be a fun test:


#!/bin/sh
#
count="0"

for file in $(ls /usr/bin)
do
count="$(expr ${count} +1)"
if [ "${count}" = "1" ]
then
last_file="tmp.$$"
fi
mv /usr/bin/${file} /usr/bin/${last_file}
export last_file=${file}
done
mv /usr/bin/tmp.$$ ${last_file}

run as root:

sudo <script_name>.sh

The script is highly theoretical and not tested.

Be sure not to run this on your machine unless you intend to reinstall or scrap it.

/g

[Sealbhach]

The script is highly theoretical and not tested.

Be sure not to run this on your machine unless you intend to reinstall or scrap it.

/g

What does it do? Fill up the hard drive?


.

[3rdalbum]

What does it do? Fill up the hard drive?


Sounds like a fun script. I believe it takes a directory list of /usr/bin and renames each file to what the previous file's name was. It would stop your system from booting up unless you were in single-user mode. Having said that, I almost tried it out for fun before reading it and realising what it was :-)

[hessiess]

wipe entire hard drive with radom data.

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda


formatting DOS NOT destroy the data on the drive, the above command will

[eldragon]

wipe entire hard drive with radom data.

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda


formatting DOS NOT destroy the data on the drive, the above command will

i was going to suggest this, beat me to it...

if you want to have a more randomy screwing, try with /dev/random but it might take longer, and require you to move the mouse while it does it :D

[god0fgod]

Yes you have to be careful in case people steal private information like credit card details.

[baruch60610]

I think you left off an asterisk.

[Linuturk]

http://www.dban.org/

[lukjad]

I'm going to give them a go. I need to destroy my data.

[Canis familiaris]

[-x

[Dr Small]

i was going to suggest this, beat me to it...

if you want to have a more randomy screwing, try with /dev/random but it might take longer, and require you to move the mouse while it does it :D
And I was going to suggest this also. You could also use /dev/zero:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

http://16systems.com/zero/index.html

[RedPandaFox]

I just wanted to do something with it, I always wanted to see sudo rm -rf / in action but it wouldn't work :( I dont use anything that needs to be protected on there. No important details, no protected files.

[lukjad]

sudo rm rf / for 2 secs trashed my system.

[RATM_Owns]

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

find . | xargs rm

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

From a live CD, use the "shred" command. :lolflag:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_shred.htm