Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > mark wrote: >> On 09/26/13 18:32, Bret Taylor wrote: >>> 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 <snip> >> Um, no. It offers DoD 5220.22-M, which it *says* is seven passes, and <snip> > although this kind of chest-thumping may elicit the occasional chuckle > from bored or weary list members on this friday afternoon, it's not much > help to the OP who AFAICR was simply asking how to reuse in centos a HDD > that is currently used by another OS on the same computer. So basically > s/he was asking for fdisk + mkfs + edit /etc/fstab , as suggested by > some. No need to digress further on DOD regulations and whatnot on this > centos list. Thanks. Hey, I mention that because I figure if it would meet their standards, it's guaranteed for anything I need. And no, I am not now, nor have I ever been under the US DoD, thankyouverymuch....* <g> But the OP did ask about cleaning it, and it's possible that something with sensitive data could go to another dept, and then they get rid of it without cleaning it, which is why all this came up. mark * #insert "AlicesRestaurant.h"