On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:07 -0700, Darth Borehd wrote: > This is what I've been doing lately. I boot with a Fedora 10 live CD. > Then I mount the hard drive and run > > wipe -cifkr /dev/sda1
Try something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=10000" > > Then just for good measure, I repartition and reformat over it. With dd, you have confidence the drive will be all zeros. > > It seems to pretty much shred the files but it takes hours. Anybody > have a faster and more efficient method? I have no idea the speed. But the process is just writing zeros and doing nothing else. > > The requirements: > * No cost and is usable in a business > * Securely erase so well that no proprietary information can be > recovered, by say an experienced attacker with thousands of dollars to > spend on equipment > * Require a minimum of interaction (to free technicians to work on other > tasks) > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
