From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ELRhr-00034a-Ki for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:42:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8UKX7wF001461; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:33:07 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8UKQxeV029519 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:26:59 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so6747wxd for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:34:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=h45BE2sjVbrTV2nXpY4vAeEnEGSuRsDN2vBWNxz8VeuWmD3iChwdG+kYUSOfDB7iiuhx+q9/7VCkNSICQj3t1x9J1nNsJllRfYVRhFJqUCESyW+A8T9xVyqKE5AqHW/C8IiUY2UwQpPfdZvqRR4C/ExMQ+lLvPZaQLmdP6pt/as= Received: by 10.70.131.4 with SMTP id e4mr1037387wxd; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.11.7 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0509301334n7aff4434j449f085a4a4e8336@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:34:35 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive? Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8UKQxeV029519 X-Archives-Salt: 4e32dc4a-0656-402b-98df-a24cdeb126e7 X-Archives-Hash: c5a9e1b9d321b532a2dd6c5d257b1c97 Hi, 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? After doing this I will be deleting all partitions again and running the XP reinstall disk from Compaq so that the new buyer gets a machine more or less ready for him to work. (I offered to set him up with Gentoo but he didn't byte.) ;-) Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list