On 18 Jul 2004, H. S. <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of > financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). Wipe was designed for this. It repeatedly writes certain patterns and random data to your disk, so that a recovery of the original data is almost (?) impossible. Versions prior to 0.20 have problems with disks larger than 4GB, so be sure to use a recent version. -- Philipp Weis pweis@pweis.com Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/
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