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

[Martin Eisenhardt <martin.eisenhardt@wiai.uni-bamberg.de>]

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 <remy.blank_asps@pobox.com> 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 different file
> > > systems. What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive?
> >
> > Assuming your hard disk is /dev/hda, I'd do:
> >
> >   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=8M
> >
> > Then go have a coffee. If you want it more secure, go for this, a few
> > times in a row (at least 7, I read):
> >
> >   dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda bs=8M
> >
> > However, this will take a *long* time, as /dev/urandom is quite slow.
> > But it will make the data unrecoverable even with expensive means.
> >
> > -- Remy
> >
> >
> > Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response.
> >
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