On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:16:01 -0500, Ron wrote in message <4a6ab131.5000...@cox.net>:
> On 2009-07-25 00:54, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > At the boot: prompt I usually key in autostart 5 then hit enter. A > > 200GB disk takes about 8 hours to clean so figure your timing > > accordingly if you decide to use this. > > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html > > Read the 2nd paragraph of the Epilogue, and then scale that up from > 80GB to 200, 250, 320, etc, etc. > > Were I to get rid of a HDD, I'd put it in an external enclosure, > fdisk it to make 1 huge partition, mkfs it vfat or ext2, then run > this script: > > http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/sfill.py ..another universally, well supported way across all conceivable operating systems, is the shot gun puzzle... ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
