On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:14:28PM -0000, Dan Williamson wrote: > I am looking for a good utility to erase all hard drives > in a machine to a DOD standard. I would prefer a > FREE utility as this is a government agency and I try > to keep costs down. > > I have read that Norton Wipeinfo, BCWipe and > several other programs wipe only the known > partitions. I need a tool that will wipe EVERYTHING !
bcwipe claims to be able to wipe block devices. Even without it, you could make a tomsrtbt disk that starts up and runs dd over and over on the drive until the macnine is turned off. while sleep 1 ; do for i in zero urandom ; do dd if=/dev/$i of=/dev/hda ; done ; done has always been my favorite. You get a nice quick layer of zeroes in there every other pass. Rob
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