[TriLUG] Disk Wipers

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Mon Aug 20 10:43:15 EDT 2007


On Monday 20 August 2007 07:20, Don Jerman wrote:
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> dd or shred ought to do it then.  Since shred is "for the purpose" and
> has online docs you should probably use that (they can look it up).  I
> use the hammer solution generally, but that's because when I get rid
> of a drive either it or my last PC with that interface has become
> inoperative.

Or it's a 470MB drive that once contained your 1999 data, and a drive that 
size isn't worth the waste of an IDE or SATA port.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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