Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Wiping Data with Linux

Do I do it from the commandline or use gparted? I have a cable for attaching
the drives via usb.

Roy

2009/11/27 Allen Schultz <allen.schultz@gmail.com>

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com<linuxcanuck%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >> 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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