[Gllug] Thoughts on secondhand server guide price

[Tethys]

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John Hearns writes:

>  please stop giving out advice which you haven't put into practice
>yourselves.
>
>I had occasion recently to securely delete a hard drive formatted with Linux
>filesystems, and did a little bit of research on this.
>
>You should use the 'scrub' tool to do this:
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/diskscrub
>
>or as someone suggests 'wipe' http://wipe.sourceforge.net/

Alternatively, just use dd with /dev/zero:

http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432

Tet
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