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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Securely deletion of an HDD
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:54:00
Message-Id: 55a38aab.nU7J7AEtbN0epOKz%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Securely deletion of an HDD by Marc Joliet
1 Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:
2
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > I have to failed drives that I want to give away for recycling purposes, but
6 > want to be sure to properly clear them first. They used be part of a btrfs
7
8 The test patterns used on Solaris and marked with "federal requirements" are:
9
10 int purge_patterns[]= { /* patterns to be written */
11 0xaaaaaaaa, /* 10101010... */
12 0x55555555, /* 01010101... == UUUU... */
13 0xaaaaaaaa, /* 10101010... */
14 0xaaaaaaaa, /* 10101010... */
15 }
16
17 Jörg
18
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20 EMail:joerg@××××××.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
21 joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
22 URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'