on 3-5-2010 3:03 PM JohnS spake the following:
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +, David G.Miller wrote:
m.r...@... writes:
m.r...@... wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 3-5-2010 3:03 PM JohnS spake the following:
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +, David G.Miller wrote:
m.r...@... writes:
m.r...@... wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is
MHR wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 3-5-2010 3:03 PM JohnS spake the following:
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +, David G.Miller wrote:
m.r...@... writes:
m.r...@... wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the
On 3/15/10, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 3-5-2010 3:03 PM JohnS spake the following:
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +, David G.Miller wrote:
m.r...@... writes:
m.r...@... wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is
that
you could
From: Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net
What is the difference between the above two commands?
Did I miss something?
See my second post where I replaced zero by random...
I don't know what n times more secure means. Could you
please explain? Does that mean that, with n times as much
m.r...@... writes:
m.r...@... wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +, David G.Miller wrote:
m.r...@... writes:
m.r...@... wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, David G. Miller wrote:
Over the years I've ended up with a pile of old hard drives. Some
are unreliable; some won't even spin up and some are just REALLY old
(e.g., 100s of MB size). I also inherited a couple of rifles (M-1
Garand and M-1 Carbine). I'm thinking write
Paul Heinlein wrote:
Or, donate the drives and a cheap torx driver to the educational
charity of your choice. Kids *love* taking them apart, and the magnets
are quite useful!
hah, I have some magnets from some old 5.25 ESDI server drives on my
fridge at home. one of them easily holds a
- Original Message
From: Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 8:16:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd
Or, donate the drives and a cheap torx driver to the educational
charity of your choice. Kids
Hi all
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
ls fdisk ok or use dd
Can data be recovered?
and what is the dd command?
Thank you
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM, chloe K chloekcy2...@yahoo.ca wrote:
Hi all
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
ls fdisk ok or use dd
Can data be recovered?
and what is the dd command?
fdisk just repartiions the disk.
dd is an axe. It can be used to
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:01 PM, chloe K chloekcy2...@yahoo.ca wrote:
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
If you want to securely remove the data, I recommend using a tool like DBAN.
If you want to just wipe out the partition boot sector for a clean
reinstallation, dd'ing
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From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
Behalf
Of Hakan Koseoglu
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:54 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
If you want
On 4 March 2010 14:01, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
I second that. Dban is the niftiest thing since sliced bread. Very handy
tool, if a bit slow. But I guess that comes with the territory. 8-)
The ATA Secure Erase command is generally faster but more difficult -
see
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Behalf
Of Benjamin Donnachie
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 3:11 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd
On 4 March 2010 14:01, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
I
From: chloe K chloekcy2...@yahoo.ca
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
ls fdisk ok or use dd
Maybe something like (replace the ?):
- fast but not secure:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096
- slow but more secure:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096
- n times
Hi all
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
ls fdisk ok or use dd
Can data be recovered?
and what is the dd command?
Thank you
http://www.dban.org/
Default with boot and nuke is three (or is it four?) passes, but you can
tell it full US DoD seven passes, which
From: John Doe jd...@yahoo.com
From: chloe K
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
ls fdisk ok or use dd
Maybe something like (replace the ?):
- fast but not secure:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096
- slow but more secure:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d?
Sorin Srbu wrote:
I second that. Dban is the niftiest thing since sliced bread. Very handy
tool, if a bit slow. But I guess that comes with the territory. 8-)
DBAN runs at wire speed. Its just that disks with 100s or 1000s of
gigabytes take a long long time to fully write.
DBAN's default
Sorin Srbu wrote:
I second that. Dban is the niftiest thing since sliced bread. Very handy
tool, if a bit slow. But I guess that comes with the territory. 8-)
DBAN runs at wire speed. Its just that disks with 100s or 1000s of
gigabytes take a long long time to fully write.
DBAN's default
John Doe wrote:
From: chloe K chloekcy2...@yahoo.ca
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
ls fdisk ok or use dd
Maybe something like (replace the ?):
- fast but not secure:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096
- slow but more secure:
dd if=/dev/zero
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
Mike
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John Doe wrote:
Oops, for the slow procedures, it is /dev/random instead of /dev/zero...
Ah, ok, disregard the other message.
Mike
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told me,
about 10 years
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
I wrote
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told me,
about
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
That may be the case, but the laws and regulations still want that level
of security, due to the regular one of our people lost a laptop/it was
stolen, and 7 zillion PII* got stolen!!!
mark yes, I am working for the gov't
the oft-quoted 1995 vintage DoD
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told me,
about 10 years ago, that they could flatten out the platters and read some
data. Thermite not only melts the platters, but will hit the Curie point.
in the 80s, disks held 10-20MB per 5.25
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
I wrote
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is
that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told
me,
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
That may be the case, but the laws and regulations still want that level
of security, due to the regular one of our people lost a laptop/it was
stolen, and 7 zillion PII* got stolen!!!
mark yes, I am working for the gov't
But not the DoD, let me say.
the
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