I have a number of PC's that are going off lease and will be sent back
to be turned into dog food. Before they leave I want to wipe the hard
drives. Although there's nothing on them that requires a
military-style wipe (e.g. destroy with a hammer), I would like to take
a pass or two over the drive.
My first thought was to boot up with Tom's boot/root disk and do:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
which would, in my warped view of the world, continue to copy random
data over the hard drive. Unfortunately, when I issue that command,
not much happens. I get some data from if but nothing appears to go
to of.
So, what't the quick-and-dirty drive wiping technique used by those
who love Linux?
Thanks in advance.
Barry
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