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joeblau / OSX Secure Disk Wipe.md
Last active March 27, 2025 02:16
Securely erase an external disk using dd on OSX

Securely erase an external disk using dd on OSX

  1. Plug in your SD card, HDD, or other block device and then use the following command to see which /dev/diskN node it's located on:
diskutil list
  1. Unmount the disk where “N� is the number of the disk taken from the above command:
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adamgit / .gitignore
Last active March 20, 2025 10:01
.gitignore file for Xcode4 / OS X Source projects
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# .gitignore file for Xcode4 and Xcode5 Source projects
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# Apple bugs, waiting for Apple to fix/respond:
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# 15564624 - what does the xccheckout file in Xcode5 do? Where's the documentation?
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# Version 2.6
# For latest version, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49478/git-ignore-file-for-xcode-projects
#