[Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

[Kevin Korb]

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I think shred is what is on SysRescueCD which I have around for many other
reasons.  It has been years since I felt the need to secure wipe a hard
drive.

Most of my data is encrypted anyway.

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:47:34 -0500
Hank Lambert <hank at hanklambert.com> wrote:
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> For partitioning, I just use fdisk. For wiping data, I use dban:
> www.dban.org. It's a bootable ISO, and allows you to wipe up to 35
> wipes (Guttman Method). It is freeware, not open source.
> 
> - --Hank
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> Kevin Korb wrote:
> > If you mean wipe a disk with no data you can simply overwrite it with
> > nulls like this:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1024k
> >
> > If you want to make sure the data is not recoverable then there are
> > utilities like shred that repeatedly overwrite the disk with different
> > kinds of garbage to make sure that people with a laboratory can't
> > read it.
> >
> > If you just want to delete the partitions go into fdisk or whatever
> > partitioner you use and delete them.
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:26:56 -0800 (PST)
> > "Ram K. Singh" <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > If there is a way to unformat and unpartition a hard disk.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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