Re: Wiping hard drives

[Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>]

On 14/09/11 02:10, yudi v wrote:
>  I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to
> the manufacturer for replacement.
> 
> I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX#  for the unencrypted
> partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the LUKS
> partition to destroy the header file.
> 
> I just want to hear some opinions as to what precautions you take before
> parting with hard drives. I would be very interested to hear from SSD
> owners.

I think you want scrub.  It provides somewhat more felxibility than dd
if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdXn.  There's a Debian pacakge for it.

Kind regards,
Aidan Gauland