[Wolves] data removal procedures advice

s parkes wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Mar 31 14:53:01 2003


>From: Steve <info@a2rt.org>
>Reply-To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [Wolves] data removal procedures advice
>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:20:17 -0800
>
>hello all
>
>We have a possible donation of kit arranged, and the person concerned wants 
>to know about
>procedures for removing data, and whether they get a certificate for this.
>
>I would like to give them a post-it note with 'fdisk /dev/hda' written on 
>it, but i think that
>more may be required. hmmm.Will we need to use something other than the 
>standard partition
>tools?

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

boot and nuke son, boot and nuke

considered 'good enough for most people' it uses wipe which is pretty good 
but could be modified to use BCWipe which is considered good enough for the 
US miltary

sparkes

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