Linuxguy123 wrote: > I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an > external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an > internal drive. > > How do I absolutely destroy all the data on the drive so that I may > safely return it to the retailer for a refund ? > If you really mean "absolutely destroy all the data" there is nothing better than dban. You can do erasure to DoD or DoE spec, see the docs. I believe it will do multiple drives in parallel, although I haven't had that need and may be misreading the docs. Like anything good it will be slow. If you mean make unreadable to people who aren't known by three letter acronyms, and normal data, probably a few passes with dd or wipe are enough, but if you have state secrets or something illegal, go dban. www.dban.org. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
