From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLETa-0002Zg-Q3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:24:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24CD4E092D; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED00E092D for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so177502fga.10 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:24:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=KeRngorTu5M0kXi+YqpEG6+mm0UwbM2mrxMIVZIQQWQ=; b=lrjY3NQBmw6euUo1uOww2YrGAVJl9POWy4Y+8kcqxZ+sOtd7KYAAEhpvhrwu90zTs7 GhN431aWFPL4eacuC42pwwaryAW5ZghwzFY+rPPq5Vl20v56pzMigWPKQ8dPEVZlQxQm QSeArmgnrzDmFyQxyjJ+MiLVQ3Bh9GrS+fFpo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ir8soped5PcAePMZu93ktJUGhBkyLHF6oDmwopVsVoNiWBZsxicB6f+KzH9PB3mtCE wwwJ9PP1EIwsqRFoHE2eEKiPKY5XJOfq9CBQ5I/AsUm583+ZvCBm5/dxnqvKOkRB3557 KVLCd/Z+ptx3AueBNFeyFirWLG0VYvtqp0x/Y= Received: by 10.86.254.17 with SMTP id b17mr2982021fgi.65.1261049048028; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet ([82.192.10.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d8sm4908432fga.23.2009.12.17.03.24.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:24:07 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:23:33 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <49bf44f10912161049v3768a3f8m60dddbae4b8777b@mail.gmail.com> <200912161924.42896.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4B296C43.2040807@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4B296C43.2040807@cox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1407017.hScXitNfex"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912171124.04652.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 62636ed4-7294-4b89-a206-414724bbd210 X-Archives-Hash: f2029ee961bdf9128a145d05383bba1a --nextPart1407017.hScXitNfex Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:24:51 Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/16/2009 2:24 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote: > >> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and > >> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any > >> more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. How > >> would you take it from there? I'm looking for something quick and > >> easy. My data isn't too sensitive, but I'd like to do some type of > >> wiping so it isn't all just sitting there with a deleted flag or > >> however that works. > > > > First I'd mount the partitions and then emerge/use shred: > > > > # shred -v -n 25 -z -u /mnt/a_partition > > > > Then I would delete old partitions, create new partitions and format th= em > > as required. If you're really paranoid about your data (which from what > > you're telling me you're not) you can also use dd to randomly overwrite > > partition tables, but I would probably not bother. > > > > Now, there may be more modern tools to do all this with a single button, > > but I haven't looked into it in any detail. > > > > HTH. >=20 > What's wrong with "dd if=3D/dev/zero of/dev/sdxx"? Nothing, I also mentioned dd. Both are equally effective (or less so on=20 journaled fs). shred has the -n option for multiple overwrites. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1407017.hScXitNfex Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAksqFNQACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYEFgCeP8oFKIl+zA/iac6/PLhLrVB+ e68An0HpE+2r1CSsfCVg2y1Qbdtq7I+P =jzWy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1407017.hScXitNfex--