From: Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Securely deletion of an HDD
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:58:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150713125842.60b014bd@thetick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <851879.63108.bm@smtp112.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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Am Mon, 13 Jul 2015 01:50:57 +0000
schrieb "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6726@bellsouth.net>:
> All that has been said on this thread supposes that the hard drive is still readable and writable.
>
> But the original post stated this was a failed drive.
>
> Then you might not be able to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx .. or whatever else.
>
> You would be stopped by bad sectors.
The two drives I'm referring to here failed in the sense that they have no more
reallocation sectors available. Perhaps that will make it difficult to wipe them
properly, but they were fine mechanically when I removed them.
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Marc Joliet
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-13 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-12 12:35 [gentoo-user] Securely deletion of an HDD Marc Joliet
2015-07-12 12:48 ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-12 14:39 ` Marc Joliet
2015-07-12 19:21 ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-12 19:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-13 15:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2015-07-13 17:20 ` Marc Joliet
2015-07-12 13:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2015-07-12 13:22 ` Francisco Ares
2015-07-12 16:32 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2015-07-12 19:14 ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-12 20:43 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2015-07-12 21:10 ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-12 21:20 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2015-07-12 21:30 ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-13 8:05 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2015-07-13 11:03 ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-12 22:22 ` R0b0t1
2015-07-13 0:18 ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-13 1:50 ` Thomas Mueller
2015-07-13 8:09 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2015-07-13 10:58 ` Marc Joliet [this message]
2015-07-14 22:21 ` R0b0t1
2015-07-15 12:29 ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-13 10:54 ` Marc Joliet
2015-07-13 11:04 ` Marc Joliet
2015-07-13 9:53 ` Joerg Schilling
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