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one of the drives in my raidz2 array removed itself and i can't get it recognized by any machine. how do i zero out the drive before refunding/returning it through the warranty?
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fucking 12tb drive x_x pray for my rebuild
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>>101225420
https://askubuntu.com/questions/142858/how-to-zero-out-a-drive
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>>101225470
>and i can't get it recognized by any machine
this prevents me from using dd or any command
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cat /dev/zero > /dev/drivename
With root shell.
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invent a time machine and encrypt your disk before it fails
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>>101225501
holy shit when did the reading comprehension eradication virus get released
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>>101225420
send $5 with the package and a note saying "please dont look in the homework folder"
Could you replace the pcb on teh bottom with a working one of the same model?
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>>101225515
kek
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>>101225420
go through directories with stat (or that other filenames syscall which is a mess...), lseek the length of files, ftruncate them to 0, ftruncate them back up to their length, they are now all 0s.
then you can change the filenames to a long hash and call unlink and rmdir
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>>101225501
>>101225470
>>101226392
>drive not recognized by any machine
dilate much??)
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>>101225420
Buy a super strong magnet and scrub the whole thing down.
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>>101226422
that will void his warranty lol
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>>101225466
>second drive fails during resilver
hope they weren't all the same batch lmao
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>>101225420
>how do i zero out the drive before refunding/returning it through the warranty?
You don't, take the loss and use encryption next time if you gonna RMA drives.
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>>101225420
microwave it bruh
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>>101225420
Nobody cares about your creepshot megastacy pictures collection. Just send the bloody thing already.
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>>101225420
>raidz2
can you even get any info from a single drive on a raidz2?
just send it
if you have anything that you're positive you don't want the chance to be recovered then just take the loss and destroy it
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skip rma and throw drive to deep lake



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