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There is a tool called BCwipe, which does a better job. urandom will take a heck of a long time if there is not enough entropy on the system. Google for bcwipe to find it. (I've got an iso that has tom's root boot plus bcwipe on it if you're interested).
Joseph
B Smith wrote:
| I'm about to give an older computer to a friend of mine, but before I do so I would like to clean the hard drive thoroughly. I was thinking that a few ` dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda ` would do the job, but am unsure of what block size to use. Is there an easy way to find out the hard drive's block size?
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| Thanks a ton!
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