Re: Wipe a drive clean

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:35 -0600
"Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I

Have a look at security/wipe.

Before reading this, yes I did. In fact, I even installed it.
However, the first operation appears to be a renaming of the file in
question. I was doing:

wipe -z /dev/da2

which was being kicked out with "Operation not permitted." It seemed
to want to move/rename the file first. I didn't do enough digging to
get around this before reading this e-mail.


do you have access rights to write to that device?

is the device mounted ? (it shouldn't)

B
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