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From: fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:23:15
Message-Id: 433DB97D.6060407@fire-eyes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive? by Oliver Friedrich
1 Oliver Friedrich wrote:
2 > Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>>What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive?
6 >
7 >
8 > Hi Mark,
9 >
10 > well, its not Gentoo, but DBAN is specialy Designed for secure wiping...
11 >
12 > http://dban.sourceforge.net/
13 >
14 > Give it a try...
15 >
16 > BeowulfOF
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19 There is also bcwipe (in portage) and the secure deletion toolkit. Not
20 sure if SDT is in portage.
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