[TriLUG] Disk Wipers

[Magnus]

Craig Taylor wrote:

> The intention is for a non-profit to use donated disks to place new images
> on them. As a 'encouragement' measure they're wanting to claim some degree
> of security in the 'wipe-iness'. For me, I would be fine with a 'dd
> if=/dev/[zero|rand] of=' mechanism like some have mentioned but it's a piece
> of mind thing for the donor companies I believe...


It doesn't get much better than DBAN. http://dban.sourceforge.net/

It's not a command line tool so much as a self-contained boot floppy or
CD based package for nuking hard drives, RAID arrays, etc.  It can do
quick wipes or DoD-compliant wipes that take longer.