Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Robert L Cochran writes:
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?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/youbettergetthisright bs=1M
If you want to be really sure you need to do the command above several
time or use software like
http://www.dban.org/
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