On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:19:08 -0400, you wrote:
> 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
I have never done this to a hard drive, only to floppies but when I did I used
/dev/zero instead of random.
Asside from that I would think that you may need to tell it physical partitions and
wipe each. hda1, hda2, etc.
Hope it works.
-DRW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Darren R. Weber
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AIM: TuxUser
ICQ#: 2849193
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
_______________________________________________
Redhat-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
