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Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk



On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:37:04PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I want to sell an old machine that I don't use any more but there's 
> still sensitive stuff like personal emails, gpg keys, and passwords on 
> the hdd. What's the recommended way to securely 'shred' this data so 
> that it cannot be undeleted by the next owner?

If it's only some files, shred(1)?

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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