Hi, > On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban >> 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says >> starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. >> Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive >> menu. >> >> Now that I've disabled the non-existant floppy drive, at least it does >> say >> "to save the log file again, press enter".... > I usually use dban but if it's not handy use a liveCD (me usually > Ubuntu) and use dd: > > Assuming the drive to kill is /dev/sda: > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda > > Do it a few times for good measure. At work we have a policy of > physically destroying > drives which grates a little at times. I use shred from a rescue CD (Centos/RHEL/Fedora/Ubuntu). shred -vz -n3 /dev/sda clears the disk nicely (takes some tim though :) )
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