Dangerous
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=4Mlinux · bash · Beginner
Writes random bytes directly over a whole NVMe disk, partition table included. dd talks to the block device beneath the filesystem, so there is no undelete, and random data defeats the carving tools that sometimes recover from a zeroed disk.
Signals to notice
- of=/dev/nvme0n1 targets the raw disk rather than a file on it
- random source data leaves nothing for a recovery tool to carve
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