Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

[Mark Shields]

Forgot to credit my source:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1848770

That post also mentions a Helix livecd that comes with the dlcfdd program I
mentioned.

On 9/30/05, Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Deleting and recreating new, different partitions isn't enough, as the raw
> data is still there. I would use /dev/urandom combined /bin/dd. Never done
> this before, but *should* work. Boot from the gentoo livecd (or some other
> livecd that provides a full working linux environment), type dd
> if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda conv=notrunc . Run that about 10 times (you do
> want it securely erased right?) or however many times you feel is necessary.
> Use dlcfdd instead of dd if you can, as with an extra CLI option
> (sizeprobe=of) you can get a progress bar.
>
> On 9/30/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
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> >
>
>
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> - Mark Shields




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