nb. there are also commands which don't require additional (non-repo)
packages to be installed. The command shread should allow you to
shread files.
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_shred.htm
Joseph Walton-Rivers,
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On 19 September 2010 20:30,
On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 23:35:26 John Matthews wrote:
Hi, thank you so much for giving me that info I installed it, and it
works so quite happy. Problem is, the http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com
http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/ website, only deals with ubuntu up to
9.04 I think, is there an up
On 17/09/10 11:39, azmodie wrote:
secure-delete is a command line tool and must be run from the terminal.
i believe the command you are looking fro is srm.
try typeing man srm in terminal.
i personaly have not used it.
i have used wipe command in the past .
On 11/08/10 13:07, Alan Pope wrote:
On 11 August 2010 12:47, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote:
I tried to install it, from the repository, it says its installed, but I
cant find it any where. Where would it install to?
This lists the files in the package:-
On 17 September 2010 11:04, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
On 11/08/10 13:07, Alan Pope wrote:
On 11 August 2010 12:47, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote:
I tried to install it, from the repository, it says its installed,
but I
cant find it any where. Where would it install
Hi Folks,
One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving
them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do this?
I have used shred to remove files, but I dont think it can do an entire
disc (i.e. some previously deleted files)
Thanks
-Mark
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On 11 August 2010 11:01, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving
them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do this?
I have used shred to remove files, but I dont think it can do an entire
disc
Best way is probavly just to use the dd command:
If you run off of a live CD then just point dd to the drive instead of a
file.
Example: sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
That will overwrite the entire drive that's on /dev/sda with random data
destroying any Filesystem on that drive.
You
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:12 +0100, Bill Cumming wrote:
Best way is probavly just to use the dd command:
If you run off of a live CD then just point dd to the drive instead
of a file.
Example: sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
That will overwrite the entire drive that's on /dev/sda with
On 11 August 2010 11:39, Dan Fish d...@fishms.org wrote:
My only beef with dd is the lack of feedback - nothing appears to be
happening. There's a replacement in the repos called dcfldd. Does a
similar thing and accepts similar arguments but gives back a progress
bar of sorts.
On 11 August 2010 11:41, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/06/show-progress-during-dd-copy.html
Interesting...
Sean
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if you install dcfldd instead you get some feed back it's basically dd
with a few tweeks.
On 11 August 2010 11:41, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 11 August 2010 11:39, Dan Fish d...@fishms.org wrote:
My only beef with dd is the lack of feedback - nothing appears to be
happening. There's
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:05 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke.
http://www.dban.org/
I would echo Alan's recommendation of DBAN. Choose one of the DOD
options and you will be erasing to a level approved for use on Gov
drives too.
Vince
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On 11/08/10 11:46, Vince Marsters wrote:
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:05 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke.
http://www.dban.org/
I would echo Alan's recommendation of DBAN. Choose one of the DOD
options and you will be erasing to a level approved for use on Gov
drives
On 11 August 2010 12:15, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
What about hd you are still using, but have deleted stuff on them. Is there
any way to bring that back, or even completely delete it?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/secure-delete
Even if you overwrite a file 10+ times, it can still be
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:15 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
What about hd you are still using, but have deleted stuff on them. Is
there any way to bring that back, or even completely delete it?
I had a program for windows when i used it, but I cant find anything
for linux.
For data recovery
Quick question:
With dd (and dcfldd) it's east to write 0 (zeros) out to a drive but how
can you write just *1 (ones) out instead?
On 11 August 2010 12:33, Vince Marsters vi...@marsters.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:15 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
What about hd you are still using,
On 11/08/10 12:19, Alan Pope wrote:
On 11 August 2010 12:15, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote:
What about hd you are still using, but have deleted stuff on them. Is
there
any way to bring that back, or even completely delete it?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/secure-delete
On 11 August 2010 12:47, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
I tried to install it, from the repository, it says its installed, but I
cant find it any where. Where would it install to?
This lists the files in the package:-
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/secure-delete/filelist
On 11/08/10 12:19, Alan Pope wrote:
Even if you overwrite a file 10+ times, it can still be recovered...
Well here's a bloke who has *never* been able to recover stuff that he
accidentally deleted, especially on xfs. Backups FTW!
Al
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If you really want to do something like this, you'd need to write a
bit of C or something that outputs 1s and compile it. You could, I
suppose, in python (or even bash) do something like
while true()
print chr(0xff)
though if you do the equivalent in C (or anything compiled) as it'll be
On 11/08/2010 11:46, Vince Marsters wrote:
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:05 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke.
http://www.dban.org/
I would echo Alan's recommendation of DBAN. Choose one of the DOD
options and you will be erasing to a level approved for use on Gov
drives
Bill,
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:12 +0100, Bill Cumming wrote:
Best way is probavly just to use the dd command:
If you run off of a live CD then just point dd to the drive instead
of a file.
Example: sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
That will overwrite the entire drive that's on
On 11 August 2010 13:36, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
I'd also recommend DBAN, I've used it quite a bit, personally and also
for companies getting rid of machines. I believe it'll even do multiple
drives at once if you want to erase a few drives (although as mentioned
elsewhere, make
i know!
I usually just use /dev/zero for day to day stuff, but if i've just got a
drive from someone, or giving it away, I usually run it through a dcfldd
wipe sequence of zero / urandom / zero just to be sure.. ^_^
On 11 August 2010 13:54, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
Bill,
On 11/08/2010 13:56, Byte Soup wrote:
On 11 August 2010 13:36, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk
mailto:r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
I'd also recommend DBAN, I've used it quite a bit, personally and also
for companies getting rid of machines. I believe it'll even do
multiple
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2010 11:01:16 Byte Soup wrote:
One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving
them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do
this? I have used shred to remove files, but I dont think it can do an
entire disc (i.e. some
I use act...@killdisk cos it's easy and bootable.
Paula
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On 11/08/10 14:15, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2010 11:01:16 Byte Soup wrote:
One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving
them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do
this? I have used shred to remove files, but I dont
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