Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>> 3) # shred -vzn 65536 /dev/hda
>
> For future reference, man shred:
>
> NAME
> shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it
>
> SYNOPSIS
> shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]
>
> DESCRIPTION
> Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder
> for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.
And doing that to /dev/hda would destroy everything on the whole drive, not just
one partition.
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