wiping partitions

[Jorge Almeida]

>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:

Well, hammering a hd may be fun, but with my luck I would probably lose
an eye to a flying case fragment. I said "within reason", which means I
want to just forget the drive (keeping it for an emergency, perhaps) and
I have nothing that would be remotelly interesting to any agency, but
I'm paranoid enough to not want to leave a forgotten written hd behind
in case I'm run over by a taxi...
I read somewhere (sometime ago) that the best, software only, way to
wipe a partition was to overwrite it in several passes with some
patterns (not just zeros). There was some software to do that, but I
can't remember which.  I was hoping someone would be using it.

Thanks.

Jorge