On Thu, 28 May 2009 22:29:23 -0400 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? Thermite ? > Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or > some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? No > Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of nonsense to > every storage location? That isn't completely guaranteed. Modern drives have a security erase command which I think some tools like hdparm can issue as shipped nowdays -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
