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Re: Erasing a hard disk easily


From: Tim <tim-security () sentinelchicken org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:19:42 -0700

[ the command for dd overwrite with zeros is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd? ]

This is probably perfectly sufficient for what you need.  However,
choices are always good:
  http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Many algorithms available and comes on a handy boot CD.

tim

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