wiping partitions

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 07:08:14 pm 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?

If it's to be reused and your paranoia level is high enough... there's no good 
answer or solution. If the drive is to be be trashed... it has to be 
destroyed. Nothing short of total destruction will guarantee complete 
protection of the data within. The platters must be destroyed.

That's the policy my employer has taken and that's what we enforce.

Bizzar isn't it?

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>From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride