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FDisk - Total Format?

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Calum:

--- Quote from: Master of Reality ---get a nice linux boot disk... then at the shell run "# cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda"
--- End quote ---

this will erase the contents of the hard drive.
funny how long it sometimes takes to get a straight answer here! thanks, MoR! :-D

Master of Reality:
then for shits and giggles run "# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda"

KernelPanic:
Surely that is what the disk Sauron linked is doing for you.
Just automated, and repeatedly.

skyman8081:

--- Quote from: Master of Reality ---then for shits and giggles run "# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda"
--- End quote ---


If you want DOD 5220.22-M deletion you have to do this:

write it over with 10101010 etc.... then with 0101010101 etc...

Do that 3 times.

then you make a final pass of randomness.

if you have any information that is rated above Secret, that will not work, as the HD retains its magnetism for disk tracking servo data.  Above secret, you must degauss the disk and then destroy the disk completely

Site with a list of compliant methods of erasure

Giorgi:
Lol! Bye guys i throw my hdd away..  :D

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