Secure wipe considered voodoo (was Re: favorite dban parameters)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-25 00:54, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> At the boot: prompt I usually key in autostart 5 then hit enter.  A 
> 200GB disk takes about 8 hours to clean so figure your timing 
> accordingly if you decide to use this.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html

Read the 2nd paragraph of the Epilogue, and then scale that up from 
80GB to 200, 250, 320, etc, etc.

Were I to get rid of a HDD, I'd put it in an external enclosure, 
fdisk it to make 1 huge partition, mkfs it vfat or ext2, then run 
this script:

http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/sfill.py

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