[Gllug] Disk Wipe

[Tethys]

"FORSTER, David" writes:

>I want to perform a secure wipe of a disk. You know the type of thing
>where you overwrite the data on the disk with (pseudo)random bytes
>before marking it as deleted in the FAT (or equivalent). I don't care
>if I lose the partition table or not because it will be repartitioned
>etc. anyway.

	for i in 1 2 3 4
	do
		dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
	done

Should take care of it quite nicely.

Tet
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