wipe /dev/sda

Neil Aggarwal neil at JAMMConsulting.com
Tue Jul 14 14:24:15 UTC 2009


Bob:

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

Yes, but unless he has the secret recipe to diet Coke,
overwriting disk 8 or more times with random data
is good enough.  That is what DBAN recommends for good
security.

	Neil


--
Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com
Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have
a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster?
If so, ask me about our geographically redundant database system. 





More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list