[ubuntu-uk] Securely delete data

[Alan Pope]

On 16/11/12 17:00, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> Only with shred you get useful progress output, and can optionally do more
> passes with more secure data. shred is part of coreutils and is included on
> all Ubuntu Live CDs.
>

More passes don't really give you any benefit. A simple single run of dd 
is sufficient.

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