On 05/29/2009 05:44 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
'shred' is part of coreutils (i.e. installed by default).
Doing something like
shred /dev/sdX
as root will write various bit patterns 25 times over the entire drive
(see the man page for more options).
Whoopeeedoo. Thats still not the correct way to erase a disk.
Use security erase, that is why it is there.
Thanks very much to all who responded! I'm going to use Alan's
suggestion first of all and if necessary a mixture of everyone else's.
For good measure maybe I'll dump a pound or so of salt in a gallon of
nice hot water and drop the hard drive in and wait for signs of rust to
appear. Ha ha!
Thanks again!
Bob
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