On 18 Jul 2004, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18 Jul 2004, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > >> that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of > >> financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). > > > > Wipe was designed for this. It repeatedly writes certain patterns and > > random data to your disk, so that a recovery of the original data is > > almost (?) impossible. Versions prior to 0.20 have problems with disks > > larger than 4GB, so be sure to use a recent version. > > As far as I know this does not work reliably with journaled file systems > like ext3. And you probably want to remove everything including and > file system data, so overwriting the complete disk (e.g. /dev/hdb) > using /dev/zero or /dev/urandom as input woule be better.
I was not talking about wiping individual files, but about wiping a whole disk or partition. Wipe handles block devices quite well. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/
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