Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Fish schrieb: A good option for more speed would be to use aespipe to encrypt /dev/zero and write that output to the disk. Why do that? Overwritten data is already pretty much irrecoverable. Or do you know of ONE instance, where those rescue companies restored an OVERWRITTEN (ie. not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Jonathan Wright
Alexander Skwar wrote: A good option for more speed would be to use aespipe to encrypt /dev/zero and write that output to the disk. Why do that? Overwritten data is already pretty much irrecoverable. Or do you know of ONE instance, where those rescue companies restored an OVERWRITTEN (ie. not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 September 2005 22:50, Remy Blank wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jonathan Wright schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: A good option for more speed would be to use aespipe to encrypt /dev/zero and write that output to the disk. Why do that? Overwritten data is already pretty much irrecoverable. Or do you know of ONE instance, where those rescue companies

[gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which are different sizes and different file systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Remy On 9/30/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
Hello, you might want to give shred a try. It is probably already installed on your box. Regards Martin On Friday 30 September 2005 23:11, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Remy On 9/30/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Richard Fish
Remy Blank wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which are different sizes and