[Linux-Discussion] Re: Linux should be able to do this... But how?
- From: Lynn <landerso@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:12:51 -0400
gaydec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I need a way to clean a hardrive off so that the data cannot be recovered.
> There is a windows based util that the DOD uses but you have to put the
> harddrive in another machine and it wipes the disk 7 layers deep.
>
Well, that's balderdash pure and simple. Hard-disks do not have
"layers". The way you prevent the possibility of data recovery is by
writing over top of where the old data used to be.
> Is
> there a linux boot disk out there that will do this.
>
Pull the machine up with a rescue disk, then run:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda1 bs=1M count=5000
Replace 5000 with the size of the partition in megabytes, hda1 with the
name of the partition.
> Next think that I need is a console based device manager for linux.
> Preferably something on a floppy distribution or somethiung like that.
>
Are you talking fdisk?
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