linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Wiping Data with Linux

Friday, November 27, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Wiping Data with Linux

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Allen Schultz <allen.schultz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do I do it from the commandline or use gparted? I have a cable for attaching
>> the drives via usb.

Here is a solution for Debian-based systems.

You can use a suite of tools called secure-delete.

sudo apt-get install secure-delete

This has four tools:

srm - securely delete an existing file
smem - securely delete traces of a file from ram
sfill - wipe all the space marked as empty on your hard drive
sswap - wipe all the data from you swap space.

Source: http://superuser.com/questions/19326/how-to-wipe-free-disk-space-in-linux