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 1ELThj-00089d-MF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:50:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8UMfhqT003094; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:41:43 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8UMc9fH020812 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:38:10 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so18842wxd for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:45:47 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pUpGmlBy04fV0zw4mbJCXpdN+rWojV6wkBx86ufv8HZPmxPHEBl2XWZySnwRnX2ac6Mky+3pUI6uOkML7Yv5TcZW5fDLtideqkqpyL3IwVtTMaXNqSbAyGSVar52sTJL40+U0WvPY+RWJU/Js1vr+Th7URTqwax1ZuwsDw9rurg= Received: by 10.70.8.2 with SMTP id 2mr1071727wxh; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.11.7 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0509301545j1d8e660brafd807d1e06c1da8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:45:47 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive? In-Reply-To: <433DB97D.6060407@fire-eyes.org> 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 References: <5bdc1c8b0509301334n7aff4434j449f085a4a4e8336@mail.gmail.com> <433DB8E2.7040201@gmx.de> <433DB97D.6060407@fire-eyes.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8UMc9fH020812 X-Archives-Salt: ad92635d-35e7-4ea2-9cf1-d34ece7cc576 X-Archives-Hash: 71cf7f573e6ca61320fce5910a242396 Thanks all. I think this info would make a good wiki or something. There are sort of two cases: 1) You want to wipe some drive that's a peripheral part of the system. You're going to keep the system so you can use portage, etc. 2) You want to wipe the whole system. You need to wipe root so you want to use something on the install disk, such as dd. Since I was doing the second option I used dd, ran it twice, blew all the partitions away, and formatted it with fat32, blew that away, did dd one more time, and then installed Windows for the guy who bought the machine. If he can find my old data more power to him! Again, thanks a lot for all the good responses. I'd like to take the time and try them all on a 1394 drives one of these days just to see how they all work. Cheers, Mark On 9/30/05, fire-eyes wrote: > Oliver Friedrich wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > >>>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. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list