Thanks Remy On 9/30/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had > > financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive > > before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written > > new partitions on which are different sizes and different file > > systems. What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive? > > Assuming your hard disk is /dev/hda, I'd do: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=8M > > Then go have a coffee. If you want it more secure, go for this, a few > times in a row (at least 7, I read): > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda bs=8M > > However, this will take a *long* time, as /dev/urandom is quite slow. > But it will make the data unrecoverable even with expensive means. > > -- Remy > > > Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > >
-- [email protected] mailing list
