On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Roy <linuxcanuck@
>> I have some old hard drives to get rid of but first want to wipe them
>> clean. I keep on hearing reports of them ending up in Africa where data
>> mining and identity theft is occurring. What is the best way to go about
>> this with Linux?
What you are wanting to do is at least a Department of Defense
Standard 7-Pass Wipe. What this does is writing to each block of data
the following pattern in order.
1. All zeroes.
2. All ones.
3. 0101...
4. Random
5. 1010...
6. All ones.
7. All zeroes.
Not entirely sure about which order 3-5 are, but those 7 are
essentially done. Now, what tools are used to do this in Linux, I do
not know.
Allen S.
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