On 08/16/2010 04:27 AM, JD wrote: > Of course. Be sure to zero out the drive if it contains > sensitive data or private intellectual property before > sending it for replacement. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=256M
Just to be clear this is not at all sufficient if you really, truly care about the security of any data stored on this device. A really determined attacker could recover much of the previous content. At a bare minimum you should use the drive's built-in secure erase feature (either using hdparm's (experimental) support or using the vendor's proprietary tools). The more paranoid organisations will physically destroy drives (possibly using a variety of methods :) before returning some agreed-upon fragment for identification of returned parts. Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
