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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?
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Oliver Friedrich wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
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>>>What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive?
> 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> well, its not Gentoo, but DBAN is specialy Designed for secure wiping...
> 
> http://dban.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Give it a try...
> 
> BeowulfOF


There is also bcwipe (in portage) and the secure deletion toolkit. Not
sure if SDT is in portage.
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