[PLUG] Disk wiping utility?

[Robert Citek]

On Jan 28, 2008 3:59 PM, Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com> wrote:
> A single pass won't prevent forensic recovery of data.  You need at
> least 5 passes.

OK, but infinite passes?  If your inifinitely paranoid, melt it down to slag.

On a slightly different flavor, why all the DoD stuff?  Sure, it's
great for discussion, but I didn't get the need for a DoD-level wipe
from the original post:

On Jan 27, 2008 10:39 PM, kurt braget <joehaircut at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I'd like to do is wipe the drive and do a clean
> install of openSUSE 10.3 so I can use the whole hard drive.

If it was me, I would boot SuSE's install and use its partitioning
tool to remove the old partitions then continue with the install.
Technically, that's only repartitioning the drive and not wiping it.
But if that's all that's needed, why go through the extra fuss?

Regards,
- Robert