Hillary's Bleach Bit. From: Ted Roche <tedro...@gmail.com> To: "profox@leafe.com" <profox@leafe.com> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [NF] has anyone played with Linux on a thumb drive? On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Man-wai Chang <chan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use dd to wipe hard disk, and the bundled memtest86 to test RAM in > new PC builds. :) >
While dd is okay to blank out a disk, extreme techniques could still recover some data. You might want to check out "scrub" also available in most Linux distros, and some live CD/DVD/USB sticks: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/scrub.1.html [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1091842096.1966685.1498798541...@mail.yahoo.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.