At 07:05 PM 5/8/2001 +0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
>Are there some disk wiping programs for Linux, which overwrite all
>data on a disk a few times, so it can't be recovered? Ideally, this
>should be an option on the mkfs command, like mkfs -w /dev/hda1. mkfs
>has a -c option, but that doesn't do it, I think.
You might take a look at wipe, at <http://wipe.sourceforge.net> - it's
file-oriented, so it's higher level than you're looking for. Its docs
mention that there's another package also called "wipe", and that Colin
Plumb worked on something called "sterilize"; that seems to be available at
<http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/Year-1998/1998-51/0421.html>,
though I've got no clue if Colin or anyone else has made changes to that
code since it was posted.
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