On Apr 13, 2007, at 11:39 AM, 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 I like this one: DBaN http://dban.sourceforge.net/ --Chris