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On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote: |
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> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and |
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> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any |
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> more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. How |
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> would you take it from there? I'm looking for something quick and |
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> easy. My data isn't too sensitive, but I'd like to do some type of |
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> wiping so it isn't all just sitting there with a deleted flag or |
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> however that works. |
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First I'd mount the partitions and then emerge/use shred: |
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# shred -v -n 25 -z -u /mnt/a_partition |
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Then I would delete old partitions, create new partitions and format them as |
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required. If you're really paranoid about your data (which from what you're |
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telling me you're not) you can also use dd to randomly overwrite partition |
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tables, but I would probably not bother. |
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Now, there may be more modern tools to do all this with a single button, but I |
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haven't looked into it in any detail. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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