[Gllug] Thoughts on secondhand server guide price

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 16 Jun, John Hearns wrote:
> Granny egg sucking hints 'n' tips time here:  wipe the fscking disks before
> sale.
> 
> a) Boot with Knoppix CD/thumb drive.  Scrub all partitions.
> 
> b) Make a list of anyone who has ever had root access to the machine: stalk
> them they slay them and their immediate families. This is simply a prudent
> step from a data protection point of view, and no court in the land will
> convict you.
> 
> 
   I just repartition the disc to a single whole disc partition, then
mke2fs -c -c /dev/hda1
or whatever drive, is that sufficient? It guarantees to write at least three
times to each bit and tests the drive, but takes time.

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