wiping partitions

[Jorge Almeida]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Jason Joines wrote:

> Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>
>    I believe the suggestion in an earlier response to have dd use 
> /dev/random or /dev/urandom alternating with /dev/zero will pretty much do 
> what you're looking for.
>
If memory doesn't fail, as it may well, it used some fixed patterns.
Anyway, I'm almost done now, using shred, which makes use of
/dev/random, I think...

Jorge Almeida