Live boot from a thumb drive, dd /dev/zero to the whole disk. On Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 15:09 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Prior to taking an old Sony Vaio laptop for recycling I wanted to scrub the > hard drive. > > First I used cfdisk and deleted each of the three partitions, wrote the > changes, then quit. For some reason this didn't work. Tried again, same > result. I'd like to understand why. > > What did work was running 'rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
