[Gllug] Disk Wipe

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 24 May, FORSTER, David wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sure this has come up before and it's probably quite a common thing, but
> my googling is obviously not up to scratch this morning!! Can one of you
> kind folks help?
> 
> 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). The disk in question has a single
> formatted partition (not sure if it's FAT32 or NTFS) and I want to erase all
> the data securely, I don't care if I lose the partition table or not because
> it will be repartitioned etc. anyway.
> 
> 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)
> 
> Thanks,
> David.

   The ext2 fs prog mke2fs will do a slow destructive multiple write-read
test on a partition before formatting if the option " -c -c " is used. You
could also re-partition the disc with a single large partition first. It is
a good way of testing a second-hand disc before use.

-- 
Chris Bell

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