[clug] Wiping a (running) system...

[David Deaves]

> We've had plenty of talk about how to wipe a disk but I am in the
> situation where I want/need to wipe a remote system as much as
> possible.  I can't really get physical access to the system but can
> SSH to it now.  I can remove all the data from the data partitions no
> sweat but the root disk is more interesting...
> 
> Is there some way to loading a currently running system into a ram
> disk or something and then wiping the disk from there?
> 

doing a

	mount -o remount,ro /

Will prevent the system from flushing buffers back onto the disk that you have 
just wiped with dd.


Dave !