[PLUG] Disk Wipe on Linux
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
Thu Apr 21 01:11:12 UTC 2005
On Wednesday April 20 2005 11:34 am, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Some years ago I bought a program from Symantec for wiping hard
> drives, with options to do a simple erase, or a process whereby
> several patterns are written and erased over the whole disk.
>
> What is the Linux equivalent of this?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[hs]d??
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Paul Johnson
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