On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most > dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or > some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? > > Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of nonsense to > every storage location? > > Thanks > > Bob Cochran You can also use the badblocks program in write mode which writes a repeated random sequence to the drive -- Fedora 10 (www.pembo13.com) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
