Dale Sykora wrote: >> Now I'm wondering what's the best way to destroy all the data on the >> drive so I can return it without my stuff, unreliable or not, on it. >> > > you can use shred and even loop it a few times > > http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/shred.1.html > > Also, doesn't the seagate utility have a low level format function? I haven't used one of those utility disks in ages, but that used to be standard fare. Cheers,