On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 12:03 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 08:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >
> >
> > Am 30.08.2011 02:05, schrieb Chris Adams:
> >> 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?
> >
> > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/your/device
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Check the documentation for:
>
> hdparm --secure-erase
>
> and/or --security-erase-enhanced
>
> gene/
How do you feel about the sentence in the man page jusr before thewse
options are described thus:
These switches are DANGEROUS to experiment with, and might not work
with every kernel. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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