On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:20:16 -0500 (CDT) Barry Brimer lists@brimer.org 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 ?