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Re: suplusing a disk, how to 'clean' up? Overwriting data?



* Walter Tautz <wtautz@cs.uwaterloo.ca> [041124 20:02]:
> 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.

Depending on your personal paranoia level you can run "dd if=/dev/random
of=/dev/hda" a couple of times.


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander

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