[CentOS] Wiping USB drives

Sat Apr 14 16:20:16 UTC 2007
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

> 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.

Barry