On 16/11/12 17:00, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Only with shred you get useful progress output, and can optionally do more
passes with more secure data. shred is part of coreutils and is included on
all Ubuntu Live CDs.
More passes don't really give you any benefit. A simple single run of dd
is suf
On 16/11/12 17:00, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2012-11-16 15:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was sufficient,
so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
Can you expand on that for a newbie?
dd if=/dev/ze
On 2012-11-16 15:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
>> but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was sufficient,
>> so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
>
> Can you expand on that for a newbie?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
You might use "bs=
On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was
sufficient, so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
Can you expand on that for a newbie?
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On 16/11/12 13:55, Daniel Case wrote:
I always use DBAN (Boot and Nuke) to securely delete a drive, remember
that deleting a user and adding a new one is by no means secure, the
next person who has it can easily use completely free recovery methods
to get back the data that was on that drive.
I always use DBAN (Boot and Nuke) to securely delete a drive, remember
that deleting a user and adding a new one is by no means secure, the
next person who has it can easily use completely free recovery methods
to get back the data that was on that drive.
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