[clug] Secure Erase of disks/drives

Brett Worth brett at worth.id.au
Mon May 7 07:49:12 GMT 2007


Alex Satrapa wrote:

> If writing random junk (cat /dev/random > /dev/hda) to the drive isn't
> enough to address your security concerns, then ...

I tried this once.  I didn't realise how slow /dev/random was before that.

Brett


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