Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote: >On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, SilverTip257 wrote: > >> Eh, I don't really think dban is necessary. Probably more than an >> fdisk and creating a file system is overkill. > >My policies are work are simple: > > 1. Re-use by same employee: stick with filesystem tools. > 2. Re-use within company: single-pass zeroing of disk. > 3. Retirement of asset: three-pass of random bits. > >I've never seen the need for a seven-pass randomization. If pressed, >I'd probably agree that a one-pass zeroing is good enough for just >about any situation. Asset retirement isn't a time-sensitive task, >however, so I always use a three-pass randomization before it heads >out the door. You all realize that dban only offers 3 passes, unless you pay for it, right? DBAN is easy, that's why I recommended it. A fairly simple solution is dd if=/dev/zero (or urandom) of=/dev/(device) -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.