[Gllug] wiping a partition

[Gordon Joly]

At 3:38 pm +0100 2/9/04, Richard Jones wrote:

>
>
>On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:31:33PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
>>  I want to eliminate all the data on three large partitions to
>>  make way for two Debian based distros which apparently
>>  will not install to partitions already containing data.
>>
>>  Some time ago, I kept an email stating how this can be done
>>  but now cannot find it.
>>
>>  Will someone kindly let me know how to do this.
>
>Erm:
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XXX bs=1024k
>
>where XXX is replaced by something like 'hda' (make sure you're wiping
>the right partition, because there's no going back once you've done
>this!)
>
>Rich.
>

I notice the Mac OS X offers several levels of data removal for a new 
install (8 times overwrite?) and similarly "Secure Empty Trash" which 
I assume does an proper overwrite of data, rather than just unlinking 
the file.

Your Kernel May Vary,

Gordo.

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