On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:37:30AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >From ???@??? Tue May 21 10:33:18 2002 > X-cs: R > From: Yan Fitterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-RS-ID: <Default> > X-RS-Flags: 0,0,1,1,0,0,0 > X-RS-Header: In-reply-to: <000501c200ae$b3da1a80$6407070a@blue> > X-RS-Sigset: 0 > To: "Nicholas Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] /dev/random and dd > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT > Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:33:01 -0000 > > > That's very usefull Nicholas - thanks. The goal of this dd was to properly destroy > all data on a HD prior to disposal of a machine (old laptops in this case). Zeroing > the disk (even repeatedly) isn't really considered good enough, as all bits are > affected by the same value, hence my use of a random source. > > tomsrtbt was an ideal solution: you plug in the old hardware, boot it on the fd, > then do a dd. A little change of the scripts could even do this automatically... > > Am I right then in thinking there's really no easy solution with Linux? (short of > leaving the dd running overnight, or mounting the HD in another (faster) machine...)
Suggestion: Creata a nice big fat file of random data on a modern machine you intend to keep around. Make it's directory available as an NFS export. Boot the old machine with tomsrtbt, and mount the exported directory. With a short shell script you should be able to continuously write the file over and over again to the drive. Short of that, such a file on a zip disk, the tomsrtbt disk, or some such. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or web pages? X No HTML/RTF in email http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley / \ No M$ Word docs in email
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