Look on Freshmeat for a program called "dban". It is designed to cryptographically wipe the hard drives.
Just deleting leaves information that can be recovered. On Sat, 15 May 2004, Kenneth Silverman wrote: > hi you guys! i am trying to completely "swipe" the hard disk clean on > my desktop pc, the one that neal and joseph helped me partition with > linux and windows in january. i managed to wipe the windows side clean > by formatting but haven't erased the knoppix side or taken the > partition out. somebody at last week's meeting gave me the commands to > completely zero the drive but I LOST THE PAPER IT WAS ON! sorry for > being a dweeb. can anyone give me the command line to zero the disk so > i can sell the thing and get on with linux on my new apple????? THANKS! > Ken Silverman > 541 343 0912 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.efn.org/~hapilife/ > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
