Re: suplusing a disk, how to 'clean' up? Overwriting data?
cat /dev/random > /dev/hd*
(where * is the drive letter you're surplussing) should do it for most
uses. If you're feeling especially paranoid, check out
http://abaababa.ouvaton.org/wipe/ .
ap
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Walter Tautz wrote:
> Please cc me on responses as I'm not on the list.
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> Just wondering how one can accomplish cleaning
> up the disk? I.e. I want to overwrite
> the existing disk so that no information can
> be recovered. I've heard that dd has it's uses?
> Simply recreating file systems is not likely
> to be sufficient.
>
> walter
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