[CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

Ken godee wrote:
>
>>> Thanks. Is it possible that shred exit abnormally in any case (for
>>> example, some files that it relies on have been shreded)?
>>
>> Without physical access to the machine so you can see (and control) what
>> is actually going on, there is no way to 100% guarantee that the data is
>> completely destroyed.
>
> If you had some disk space could you create a partition
> and install a minimalistic Linux version, set your
> system to boot the minimalistic Linux version, log
> in and completely destroy any partition you want and
> you could just leave the minimalistic Linux version.

Dumb question: why can't you have whoever has the drive pull it and ship
it to you?

      mark