Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive

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Subject: Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:05:48 -0500
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On 2009-09-06 07:00, Tim Tebbit wrote:

hadi motamedi wrote:

Dear All
Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my
hard drive under Debian OS ?
Thank you in advance
Regards
H.Motamedi


wipe
dd
DBAN


This is all you need on modern dives:
  dd bs=1M count=Z if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdXY

If the value of this command drops below 200, wiggle the mouse around:
  cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail

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