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Thanks Remy |
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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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> -- Remy |
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