wiping partitions

[Lonni J Friedman]

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1
repeat for each partition.

On 11/13/07, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida at math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> I have a 6 years old IDE hd that is about to be retired. It's still in
> good working order. I want to wipe out the contents of two partitions
> (with ext3 and vfat fs) in a secure way (within reason). What kind of
> software/strategy would you guys suggest?

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