Re: [Hampshire] Disk wiping software

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Author: Philip Stubbs
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Disk wiping software
* David Anderson (lists@???) wrote:
> I have a couple of dozen old hard drives that I would like to wipe. I
> will be mounting the drives in an external usb enclosure, and would
> like to run some DOD standard wipe program from Suse, rather than
> trying to plug the drive into the machine and booting from floppy, etc.


If you don't find anything to run from within Suse, then try Dban.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/

You could just use dd to repeatedly copy random data to the disk.
Maybe alternate between random, all 1's and all 0's.

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Philip Stubbs
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