[Gllug] Disk Wipe

[Martin A. Brooks]

Hi David,

On Monday, May 24, 2004, FORSTER, David wrote:

> Ideally I would like to be able to use a Knoppix CD to do this, and if
> anyone can suggest a method that I can use which will either wipe individual
> files OR whole disks then that would be the icing on the cake :o)

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hdX bs=1024k

Do that a few times.  It's not secure, but no disk wiping technique
is.

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