Thanks all. I think this info would make a good wiki or something. There are sort of two cases:
1) You want to wipe some drive that's a peripheral part of the system. You're going to keep the system so you can use portage, etc. 2) You want to wipe the whole system. You need to wipe root so you want to use something on the install disk, such as dd. Since I was doing the second option I used dd, ran it twice, blew all the partitions away, and formatted it with fat32, blew that away, did dd one more time, and then installed Windows for the guy who bought the machine. If he can find my old data more power to him! Again, thanks a lot for all the good responses. I'd like to take the time and try them all on a 1394 drives one of these days just to see how they all work. Cheers, Mark On 9/30/05, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Friedrich wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > >>>What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive? > > > > > > Hi Mark, > > > > well, its not Gentoo, but DBAN is specialy Designed for secure wiping... > > > > http://dban.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Give it a try... > > > > BeowulfOF > > > There is also bcwipe (in portage) and the secure deletion toolkit. Not > sure if SDT is in portage. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
