[clug] Re: More (almost free) stuff. - 3.5" WD 200GB IDE - $10

[Paul Wayper]

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Sam Couter wrote:
| Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
|> (and now I have to speed up my learning process for wiping such things.)
|
| My method:
|
| 1. Boot from Debian install disk
| 2. while true; num=$((num + 1)); echo "Random $num"; dd if=/dev/random
| of=/dev/hda bs=1024000; echo "Zero $num"; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
| bs=1024000; done
| 3. Go to bed

Alternately:

1) boot off System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org)
2) shred -vz /dev/$harddisk

This will not only overwrite the whole disk 26 times, but will use a random
assortment of zeros, random data, and patterns especially crafted by Peter
Gutmann to be the most difficult from which to recover data.

And you finish with a zeroed hard disk.

HTH,

Paul

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