On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > DBan is overkill, by leaps and bounds. Not only does it force the full > drive, but the minimum number of wipes is 3. When already booted into > your Debian system, pulling up a terminal, and running the dd(1) command > as root is all that you need to do. Saves you gobs, and gobs of time, > and doesn't wear out the drive in the process. > > Further, most GNU/Linux operating systems ship with GNU Shred. So, > booting off a live CD or USB, and running shred(1) in the root console > is just as effective, and performant as DBan. > ^^ what he said. I boot from a GParted Live usb drive because it's super lightweight and fast, and then use dd if=/dev/zero of =/dev/sdX bs=1M to wipe a drive. I don't even care about using the urandom; zeros is fine for me. Mark
