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Hello, |
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you might want to give shred a try. It is probably already installed on your |
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box. |
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Regards |
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Martin |
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On Friday 30 September 2005 23:11, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Thanks Remy |
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> |
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> On 9/30/05, Remy Blank <remy.blank_asps@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > > Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had |
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> > > financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive |
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> > > before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written |
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> > > new partitions on which are different sizes and different file |
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> > > systems. What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive? |
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> > |
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> > Assuming your hard disk is /dev/hda, I'd do: |
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> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=8M |
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> > |
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> > Then go have a coffee. If you want it more secure, go for this, a few |
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> > times in a row (at least 7, I read): |
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> > |
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> > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda bs=8M |
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> > However, this will take a *long* time, as /dev/urandom is quite slow. |
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> > But it will make the data unrecoverable even with expensive means. |
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> > |
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> > -- Remy |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf. (Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt |
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