wiping partitions

[Leon Goldstein]

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?
>
Nothing beats disassembling the drive and sand papering the discs.
You can run /usr/bin/wipe to overwrite the partition to make lifting 
data from it that much more difficult.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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