Wiping Out Data

[Manuel Götz]

Try DBAN (dariks boot and nuke) very nice tool to wipe your disks off ...
http://dban.sourceforge.net ... easy to handle and it provides a lot of
algorithm you can choose to wipe your disks

so long Manuel

On 3/16/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> Amichai Rotman wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have a bunch of Hard disks I would like to donate. I would like to
> > completely wipe out the date from the Hard disks so I can calmly donate
> the
> > disks without worrying other people will be able to read my data.
> >
> > I am looking for an app to completely wipe out the data (kinda walking
> 1s
> > and 0s)....
> >
> > Any such app any of you can recommend?
>
> Run GNU shred from the livecd.  I'm almost positive the command is
> installed by default.
>
> shred /dev/sda#
>
> Replace /dev/sda# with your device name (e.g. /dev/sda1).  You can
> figure them out easily by running (while still in the OS):
>
> mount
>
> Matthew Flaschen
>
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