Neato. Nice progress screen... much better than dd and seems faster too. Ignorant question: what's a remapped sector, and why doesn't DBAN wipe it?
Also, does this wipe the MBR too? Do I need to go back in and do the fdisk /mbr thing? Judah Dan Lenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would strongly suggest using DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) or > Shred > (http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/manuals/unix/coreutils-6.6/coreutils_77.html) to > wipe your hard disk. The shred web page gives some info on why it's a good > idea to do something more thorough than simply overwrite the disk with zeroes. > > Shred is part of GNU coreutils so you probably have it already. DBAN is > a boot disk that does basically the same thing. > > I've used both and they are a breeze to use... a highly recommended > precaution! > > Dan > > On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 20:06 -0500, J. Milgram wrote: > > For preparing a machine for sale/giveaway, does it suffice to do > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 (2,3,4, etc) > > > > on each of the partitions? > > > > Any better ideas? > > > > Let's assume I'm up against average folks, not NSA (who probably have my > > credit card info already) > > > > Judah >
