[TriLUG] Disk Wipers

tj bimasakti at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 15:57:14 EDT 2007


I always use "dd" for erasing. working flawlessly for me.

I never use "shred". is this more powerful than "dd" ?
please enlighten me.

On 8/20/07, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2007 07:20, Don Jerman wrote:
> [clip]
> > 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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