I second shred. Only issue is that if drive is ssd chances are you will not overwrite every sector. Todd, I do not know how old those iMacs are, but some (lampshade) had the drives on the base while others have it behind the motherboard behind the monitor. And some also had the drive soldered to the motherboard. On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 9:04 PM Go Canes <letsgonhlcanes0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When using dd for copying or erasing disks, I typically use bs=1M. > > For erasing disks I prefer to use the shred utility - multiple passes > with various patterns and it displays progress. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
