sanitizing disc

[Bill Stanley]

On 01/30/2014 11:07 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I have ubuntu 13.10 installed on an external harddrive which I have 
> been using so it has my files on it.  I am going to give the drive to 
> a friend.  What is the best way to remove my files from the drive?  I 
> could just reinstall ubuntu but short of that is there anything I can 
> do to sanitize the disk?  How about make another user and delete my 
> original user?
>
Nuke the hard drive from orbit!  <ducks>