Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

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  On 10/08/2010 12:41 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> HI
>
> Try this:
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wipe/
>
> Good Luck
>
> Marvin
>
>
> On 10/8/10, Linuxguy123<linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> I bought a hard drive and wrote a bunch of information to it as an
>> external drive only to find that it won't fit in my laptop as an
>> internal drive.
>>
>> How do I absolutely destroy all the data on the drive so that I may
>> safely return it to the retailer for a refund ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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$ rpm -qf --whatprovides /usr/bin/wipe
wipe-0.21-4.fc12.i686
You can get it from
for 32 bit
download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/i386/os/Packages/wipe-0.21-4.fc12.i686.rpm 

and for 64 bit
download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/wipe-0.21-4.fc12.x86_64.rpm

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