On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 01:57:53PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > It's possible malware has corrupted that system too. In that event, on > another computer that can burn CD;'s download dban from freshmeat.net and > burn the iso onto a cdr cd not a cdrw. What dban does is to return all > hard drives on a machine to the condition they were in before anyone had > burnt any operating systems on them so this is a last ditch measure. why not just cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda from a live cd? and is it really necessary to actually wipe every sector on the disk? just killing the filesystem would unlink any files and then you're done. A
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