for disk in $(mount -l -t ext3|grep -v ' / ') | awk '{print $1 }' do dd if=/dev/zero of=$disk bs=1024 count=64 done This does leave a bootable root partition, but little else. My apologies for the non portable code. On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:23:44 +0000, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > drop database ... is there in 10g, perhaps they had its usefulness as > an answer to opaque questions in mind. It would take Carel-Jan's > excellent comment about never executing the statement to a more > appropriate level, that of never executing any statement. Performance > heaven. > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l