On Sat, 2019-01-26 at 20:01 +0000, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 20:24 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 1/25/19 6:45 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away, > > > other than smashing the drives to bits? > > > > The quickest would be to encrypt the drives from the beginning. When you > > want to discard the drives, you just need to wipe the LUKS header. With > > the key wiped out, the rest of the drive is just random bits. > > This, 100 times over! Undoubtedly, *if* the drive was previously encrypted. Nothing the OP has says indicates this is the case, and encrypting it now is not going to be faster than trashing it. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
