wiping partitions

[Lonni J Friedman]

Yes, depending on how paranoid you are, repeat it multiple times,
perhaps substituting /dev/urandom for /dev/zero just to make things
more interesting.

On 11/13/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1
> > repeat for each partition.
> >
> Does this need to be run several times to make it securely deleted? I
> recall that there is something of a memory on even overwritten
> harddisks. I understand the DOD has a standard that says it needs
> several passes but from memory that is with Windows Utilities.


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