Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

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Subject: Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?
From: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 22:37:35 -0400
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Robert L Cochran writes:

I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the mostdependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 orsome other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data?
Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of nonsense toevery storage location?


dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/youbettergetthisright bs=1M

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