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 sufficient.
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