Mark Knecht schrieb:
I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive
before shipping.
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda
Alexander Skwar
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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/
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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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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