wipe /dev/sda

[Pastor JW]

On Tuesday 14 July 2009 6:55:45 am 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?

What I do is just reformat the drive to a blank Amiga drive, rewrite it with 
zeros, rewrite with random numbers, then reformat back to a linux drive.  

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