On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:20:16 -0500 (CDT) Barry Brimer <lists at 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 ? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work