wipe /dev/sda

[Accessys@smart.net]

according to security experts the ONLY sure way to clean a hard drive
is with a sledge hammer......

Bob


On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Gregg Hastings wrote:

> I have a disk I'm getting rid of via eBay.  For whatever reason I can't
> get DBAN to load on that laptop.  I was thinking about doing dd
> if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda from knoppix but then I ran across wipe.
>
> After looking over the man page I can't decided which, if any, options
> to include with wipe /dev/sda.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?  From what I read it will be
> doing a 34 pass wipe by default with no options present.  Which is fine
> for the information the disk used to hold.  Nothing overly sensitive.
>
> Experiences?
>
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