Andrew M.A. Cater writes:
> If you want to wipe an entire drive 

> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

Shred can wipe a drive.

> repeated a couple of times if necessary.

And it takes care of the repeats and is faster than dd.
-- 
John Hasler


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