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? 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? 'shred' is part of coreutils (i.e. installed by default). Doing something like shred /dev/sdX as root will write various bit patterns 25 times over the entire drive (see the man page for more options). Srdan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
