On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:57, Danny MacMillan wrote: > Sebastian Pahlke wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > > You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination > with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a disk isn't a significant barrier to > forensic analysis. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Using /dev/random is much, much slower than /dev/zero. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
