Hello, you might want to give shred a try. It is probably already installed on your box.
Regards Martin On Friday 30 September 2005 23:11, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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 -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf. (Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Department Business Informatics and Applied Computer Science Media Informatics Group D - 96045 Bamberg fon: +49 (951) 863 2856 fax: +49 (951) 863 2852 www: http://www.mneisen.org -- [email protected] mailing list
