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Mick wrote: |
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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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Also note that shred, at least the last I read, doesn't work to well on |
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some file systems. I know this used to be true for reiserfs and some |
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other journalized file systems. |
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I'm thinking the dd thing may be the best way here. I don't think it |
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cares about file systems when it does its thing. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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