PC Wipe script?

[Alexander Skwar (ML)]

Hi

Am 05/21/12 15:29, schrieb Amichai Rotman:
> I'd like to have a script to nuke such a PC when I get it back (after
> backing up all their data, of course...

Quite easy - boot some live distro (like Ubuntu, to get this offtopic
thread back on topic *G*) and run:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

(Replace sda by the actual name of your hard disk.)

No need for some "magic" random pattern writing.

DBAN @ http://www.dban.org/ might also be handy.

Alexander
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