OT: Disposing Old Computer Parts

[Sheldon Mustard]

On 6/6/07, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Sheldon Mustard wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024
>
> That is a very poor way to wipe a disk. The data will still be recoverable
> with the right hardware/tools. Most of the programs designed to make data
> unrecoverable include several passes where random data is written to the disk.
> IIRC, you need at least six different writes of data to truly make the
> information unrecoverable.

Yes good call, so several (maybe 10 or 15) passes with /dev/random then.

SJM

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