2011/9/13 Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com>: > On 09/13/2011 08:04 AM, yudi v wrote: >> I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to >> the manufacturer for replacement. >> >> I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX# for the unencrypted >> partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the LUKS >> partition to destroy the header file. >> >> I just want to hear some opinions as to what precautions you take before >> parting with hard drives. I would be very interested to hear from SSD >> owners. > > If the drive has encrypted data, then you don't need to wipe much. I > would do the following, and call it good: > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=100 > > This will wipe pseudorandom data to the first 100MB of the drive, which > should wipe out any of the encrypted header information at the beginning > of the partition. Further, notice that I'm using /dev/sdX rather than > /dev/sdX#. Sending it to the drive should wipe the bootloader also, as > well as take out the partition information.
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