You can wipe your drive with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[device to be wiped]
followed by: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/[device to be wiped] repeat 7 times per device if you want the DoD standard for wiping a drive. If you would like to save time/trouble drop the sequence in a script. Plenty of examples on the web. One pass is usually good for most ppl tbh. Though I did do a recovery once that rebuilt the last 3 OS installs on the server... but if you trust the person you are giving them too not to care then one pass should do. -- Fred On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 8:25 PM Gordon Messmer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/25/19 6:45 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away, > > other than smashing the drives to bits? > > > The quickest would be to encrypt the drives from the beginning. When you > want to discard the drives, you just need to wipe the LUKS header. With > the key wiped out, the rest of the drive is just random bits. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] >
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