[TriLUG] disk-wiping tool?

[Andrew Perrin]

Try booting to anything, then doing:

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hd{x}

where {x} is the drive you want to wipe.

ap

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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Christopher L Merrill wrote:

> I need to wipe some hard drives on various old machines before
> they are disposed of.  Is there a Linux distribution-on-a-floppy
> that can do this?  I'm thinking of something similar to "parted",
> which is available as an ISO image of a floppy, so I can use it
> on any system, regardless of the original OS.
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
> I would have googled...but I wasn't sure what terms to search for :(
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