[TriLUG] disk data destruction

[Morris Walton]

Hi,

I am migrating/merging three old drives into one new one and will
attempt to sell my old drives.  I want to destroy the data on the old
drives more thoroughly than just doing a re-partition.  What utility
would you recommend?

Thanks for the help!

Morris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On
Behalf
> Of Jon Carnes
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:56 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] disk partitioning
> 
> Red Hat went the way of simplicity.  An experienced admin will
partition
> the disk themselves, and inexperienced user will simply not want to
deal
> with having separate volumes (or they will partition it themselves).
> 
> Kudo's to RedHat for making it easier on Newbies.
> 
> One big partition will not be slower, but it is less "secure".  As an
> example, your "/tmp" directory is on the big "/" and that directory is
> wide-open to being written to.  If someone with external access to
your
> box decides to hose you, they can simply write a ton of small file to
> your "/tmp" directory.  This will eat up all the space on your drive
as
> well as all the inodes.
> 
> On a workstation that may not be a big deal to you - especially if you
> don't run any daemon's like ftp or apache.  I recommend though that
you
> do have a separate /home directory (or a /backup directory).  At some
> point in the lifespan of that hard drive you will want to upgrade the
> distribution.  When that happens, you will find it easier to
> install/backup if everything you want to preserve is in a separate
> volume.
> 
> Good Luck - Jon Carnes
> 
> On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 10:34, Morris Walton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed RH8, using a new 120G hd.  I accepted the default
> > partitioning scheme, which basically just uses /boot, /, and swap.
"/"
> > has the bulk of the space.  I was wondering if there is a shift in
> > philosophy in using less partitions than before as I remember RH
> > recommending more partitions in older versions.  Will the one big
> > partition be slower?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Morris
> 
> 
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