Re: The shred command and security?

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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:35:43PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:42:24 -0600
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:58:09 +0000,
> >   Mike C <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In the event that you want to give a Fedora machine to a friend but want to
> > > remove sensitive files first, an obvious tool is the shred command.
> > 
> > An easy way to do this is to boot with a livecd and the copy /dev/zero to
> > the raw disk devices (or use a destructive write test with badblocks). Once
> > that is complete do a fresh install.
> 
> If you are going to blank the media use the security erase command to the
> drive. That is what it is there for.

Is there any command that does that in Fedora?

Thanks,
Luciano Rocha

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