Subject: ubuntu-us-ne disk shredder

From: Dan Staehr <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:04 -0500

Looking for a disk shredder program to use with my Linux system.

A client brought in very old computer they want to donate. Need to have 
data cleaned from hard drive. Thought I'd swap the drive into my Unbuntu 
computer as a slave and clean it. Drive is currently a Windoz 95 drive 
(yea, I said it was old)
Any suggestions?

Dan Staehr

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From: "Rodney Schuler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:25:39 -0500

> Looking for a disk shredder program to use with my Linux system.

Have you considered doing the wipe in the old machine using something
like Darik;s boot and nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net?  The dban
home page tries to lead you to a windows .exe that creates boot and
nuke disks.  If you hunt around you can find the disk images to dd
onto a boot disk from linux.

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From: "Eli Criffield" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:28:13 -0500

shred -fvz /dev/hda

(replace /dev/hda with whatever the device shows up as)

see man shred

Eli

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