Security and harddisk crubbing in Linux

[Travis Ecclestone]

I am about to set up a Linux machine with Mandrake linux on a Celeron 400 system (picked up for nothing but am a big AMD fan) and am wondering about security and hard disk scrubbing programs available for Linux.

I have some scrubbing tools for Windows file systems (East Tec Eraser 2000) but want to know about similar programs for Linux.  Do they exist?  what is the best one?  I want one that will prevent software and hardware tool recovery.  East Tec Eraser can sanitise to a level over and above the US Dept of Defense standards and to the Guttman level (prevention of hardware tool recovery).  Is there a similar system around for Linux/

Thanks
Travis
Very Very Linux Newbie.
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