On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Fritz Wuehler
<fr...@spamexpire-201201.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> wrote:
> Just use dd and avoid the hassle of downloading and burning a cd that does
> dd. dban is nice if you have to do a garage full of machines or are a
> Windows victim but if you know your way around UNIX why bother with dban?

On occasion, I have had the need to perform the "DoD Short Wipe"
within DBAN; this is something a simple "dd if=/dev/zero" won't get
you.  Of course, you can use shred from coreutils to do that from the
command line if you want.
--
Matt Mullins
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