On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:52 PM, James Dinkel<[email protected]> wrote: > Or if you wanted to really destroy all the data and make sure it is > unrecoverable, you could boot to a livecd, open a terminal and run this: "dd > if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" making sure that /dev/sda is the harddisk that you > want to wipe out.
Depending on your paranoia level, you might also consider shred, which can also run from a live cd. * http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/en/man1/shred.1.html :-Dustin -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
