On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 11:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:05:11 -0500 > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > If you want to erase your drive, issue a secure erase command. It's as > > > simple as that. > > > > Is there a simple way to do that on Linux? > > hdparm supports it. > > hdparm --security-erase NULL (or the password) /dev/whatever > > Note that it wipes the entire media not a partition... Oh, if only I'd known two weeks ago. I tried "wipe /dev/sdb" on a 1TB drive replaced under warranty and it took over a week to make one pass. It wanted to do four passes (six for enhanced security), but I had to give up and ship the drive. Great tip, thanks. > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Mathematical Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
