Re: howto clean disks ?

[Matt Phillips]

The OP is donating old hard disks and wants to ensure his data is 
non-recoverable.  Why in the hell would he encrypt the disk before 
giving it away?  You and the next are way off topic.  Someone stick a 
fork in this thread; I think it's done.

- Matt
Baldur Sigurpsson wrote:

Ed White wrote:

Hi,

I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to 
delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this 
automagically ?

Thanks.



Can't you just have the hole partition encrypted, I've never actually 
encountered information about how to do it on OBDS, but the NetBSD 
guide explains how to do it in details. That way nobody will be able 
to unencrypt it unless he has the password, right?

But then again, they might try some nasty tricks on you to get the 
password..., but hopefully not ;)

Regards, Baldur