On 23/10/2010 16:31, Christopher Sandles wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 21:50 +0100, Phil Thompson wrote: >> Christopher Sandles wrote: >> >> >> In my experience DBAN takes forever. >> >> The command 'shred' in Linux is a lot faster, and can also do a >> partition rather than a whole disk. >>
If you boot DBAN into automatic mode, it does take ages because it uses a very secure method that overwrites the disk many times. If you're not concerned about the possibility of someone like GCHQ or NSA reading what's on there, then you can boot DBAN into interactive mode and choose a simple, single-pass overwrite with random data. That's a lot faster. Booting a live Linux distribution and running shred on the whole device should take a similar length of time. Tony Cowderoy _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
