Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

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Subject: Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive
From: "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:37:37 +0100
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On 02/09/09 21:32, Dean S. Messing wrote:

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean.  It
originally had 2 partitions.  I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted,
and then as root ran

     shred -vz /dev/sdd


Angle-Grinder or Belt-Sander on the platters.
Works every time.

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