On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 14:05, Bruce Kemp <wb7ooe@gmail.
> Roy wrote:
>> I am trouble finding ones that work with Reiser, ext3 or ext4. Most of the
>> ones that I have seen work only with ext2.
>>
> Try Dban from http://www.dban.
> Bruce
Thanks for posting the link... that's the one I mentioned before but
didn't have a link handy to add.
And Roy, what do you mean work on Reiser, ext3 or ext4? Are you
talking about wiping a hard drive (which is what you described
initially) or securely deleting individual files.
You were talking about disposing of hard disks and any disk wiping
utility should work. All they do is write random and non-random data
across the whole drive, regardless of partitioning and or filesystems
present. I mean, that's a gross oversimplification, but it's a
reasonable nutshell version.
If you want something that will securely delete files, then yeah, that
may be harder to find, especially for the newer filesystems as they
come out...
Good luck with that though...
Personally, anymore, I don't bother wiping hard disks before disposing
of them. I take an angle grinder to the platters, introduce them to
the wonders of map gas, and best of all, put a few rounds of 9mm, .45,
and 8mm Mauser through them ;-)
Much more theraputic, but admittedly, that IS more of a "final"
solution and doesn't lend itself to actually selling the disks
afterwards..
Cheers,
Jeff
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