On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:41 AM, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Afaik, erasing a disk 7x7 times using a truly random source of > entrophy, using the proton decay multiplexed with the frequency of > solar flares on alpha centauri, and just dd'ing /dev/zero to the drive > *ONE* time makes no difference to data retrieval/forensics.
Seconded, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned that /dev/zero is also a bazillion times faster because the CPU doesn't have to calculate all those random numbers before writing them. -B
