Re: [Hampshire] Disk wiping software

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Author: John Cooper
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Disk wiping software
David Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:07:55 +0000
> Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote:
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>> If you don't find anything to run from within Suse, then try Dban.
>> http://dban.sourceforge.net/
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> Yes, I saw dban, but unfortunately the disk is a usb disk
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>> 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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scrub will do that for you.

"Scrub iteratively writes patterns on files or disk devices to make
retrieving the data more difficult. Scrub operates in one of three
modes:"


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