Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht schrieb: I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Brian Parish
On Saturday 01 October 2005 16:15, Alexander Skwar wrote: Mark Knecht schrieb: I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda Alexander Skwar dban: http://dban.sourceforge.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/30/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and hadfinancial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and writtennew partitions on which are different sizes and

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Mark Shields
Deleting and recreating new, different partitions isn't enough, as the raw data is still there. I would use /dev/urandom combined /bin/dd. Never done this before, but *should* work. Boot from the gentoo livecd (or some other livecd that provides a full working linux environment), type dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Mark Shields
Forgot to credit my source: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=postid=1848770 That post also mentions a Helix livecd that comes with the dlcfdd program I mentioned.On 9/30/05, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Deleting and recreating new, different partitions isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which are different sizes and different file try shred: # shred -v /dev/hda -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Oliver Friedrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread fire-eyes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
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