-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Saunders wrote: > can't you boot off of anything that has dd on it and > > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda > (first hdd) (or /dev/sda for SATA (first sata drive)) as an example > /dev/zero is what I use, I am not sure /dev/null will do what you expect.
> or > > if=/dev/random or /dev/urandom DBAN has various modes depending on your level of paranoia / security awareness. The default mode does a pass with ones, a pass with zeros, and then a pass from urandom, making data recovery next to impossible. If you are giving these drives away or selling them (ie. they will no longer be in your possession) then I would highly recommend the default run with DBAN. You *could* do this manually yourself, but DBAN makes it idiot proof, especially if you have a number of them to go through. If I am reusing the drive myself (ie. it is staying in my possession), I might do a quick pass with zeros, and probably only the first few megabytes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpvhXoACgkQwRXgH3rKGfOcTgCeMpSdg0RLFCtA/L2vmn9Rn71G 6kwAoJGPmL/aufMv+2IoO8olw9gbk1QE =oJKs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
