On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:20:16 -0500 (CDT)
Barry Brimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a dozen of drives, ranging from 10Gb to 200Gb. I want to
> > wipe them clean before donating them. I have a IDE/SATA to USB
> > converter that works. I can see the drives properly.
>
> Depending on the filesystem on the drives, shred may be fine
> "man shred" can tell you more. You can also use
> "cat /dev/random > /dev/devicename" as well.
I have looked at shred before asking, and it said:
The following are examples of file systems on which shred
is not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in
all file system modes:
* log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied
with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)
How secure is cat /dev/random > /dev/devicename ?
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