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Deleting and recreating new, different partitions isn't enough, as the raw |
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data is still there. I would use /dev/urandom combined /bin/dd. Never done |
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this before, but *should* work. Boot from the gentoo livecd (or some other |
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livecd that provides a full working linux environment), type dd |
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if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda conv=notrunc . Run that about 10 times (you do |
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want it securely erased right?) or however many times you feel is necessary. |
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Use dlcfdd instead of dd if you can, as with an extra CLI option |
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(sizeprobe=of) you can get a progress bar. |
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On 9/30/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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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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> After doing this I will be deleting all partitions again and |
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> running the XP reinstall disk from Compaq so that the new buyer gets a |
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> machine more or less ready for him to work. (I offered to set him up |
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> with Gentoo but he didn't byte.) ;-) |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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- Mark Shields |