wiping partitions

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007, Jorge Almeida 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?

Take 3lb hammer.  Whack smartly.

Bill
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