On 02/22/2010 09:58 AM, Larry Williams wrote: > I can't test this, but wouldn't wipe do the job? I would think something > along the lines of > > wipe -Da /dev/st0 > > would work, although it could take a long time (35 passes by default, > use -q to do four passes). In the same time and with less mechanical > wear and tear you could sit a few rare earth magnets on the cartridge.
There's also the GNU shred utility. I'm not sure how similar it is to wipe, but it's intended for securely erasing files off of disk drives by writing passes of random data onto it. It can be run on device files, too. Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux dot com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
