wipe /dev/sda

Neil Aggarwal neil at JAMMConsulting.com
Tue Jul 14 19:24:35 UTC 2009


Joep:

> The best way is to use a reasonably strong electromagnet and sweep it 
> over the disk. In the old days we did it to wipe magnetic 
> tapes.

Would that work for hard drives? 

	Neil

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