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 1NLHIp-0005Fq-12 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:26:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 817F1E08BA; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:25:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE7EE08BA for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:25:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C52A3510F9 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:25:39 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:26:20 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale Message-ID: <20091217142620.24036159@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B2A34D8.4040202@cox.net> References: <49bf44f10912161049v3768a3f8m60dddbae4b8777b@mail.gmail.com> <4B299C27.4030306@gmail.com> <200912171142.41399.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4B2A34D8.4040202@cox.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs39 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/=APJ9cZs+Y5tLDA98DWoj+Z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 2bfc6c69-daa6-4f61-acf8-f071b7daead3 X-Archives-Hash: c3affd0d5995d2495440bd87a45b7beb --Sig_/=APJ9cZs+Y5tLDA98DWoj+Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:40:40 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: > That would be a bit inconvenient...I still vote for dd, overwriting the=20 > thing 26 times sounds like WAY overkill for a hdd... Doesn't that depend on the contents of the disk? I don't see what's wrong with booting a DBAN disk and letting it get on with the job overnight. --=20 Neil Bothwick That's not a bug, it's a Free Enhanced Feature! --Sig_/=APJ9cZs+Y5tLDA98DWoj+Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksqP5EACgkQum4al0N1GQPZ3ACgtFKy6SlvDzTH/dfYg9mGVIQ2 rCoAn1dzHrqmsLv66DYmR8mEs6GLnNcN =ONKz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/=APJ9cZs+Y5tLDA98DWoj+Z--