On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 00:05 +0000, g wrote: > when i want to totally destroy a disk platter, i burn off oxide > coating using lighter fluid. works just as good and does not stink up > grill. besides, who wants their stakes smelling and tasting like > oxide. Years ago, I let my young nephew play with an old hard drive, vice grips, a drill, and a hammer. It kept him out of our hair for a very long time, and there was nothing salvageable left of the drive. ;-) You could, of course, try running Windows on the drive. It seems excellent at destroying data without even trying. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines