Hi,

I took an old drive from a Mac(not working) and would like to make sure 
the files are not readable. I have the drive in a x86 box running Debian 
Linux box with a  2.4.8 kernel but the drive is HFS+(MacOS X)which is 
not supported until 2.6 or by patching and compiling 2.4. I don't really 
want to do that because I just got it all working for a firewall box.

Could I just format the drive and then use wipe on the device such as 
/dev/hdb1 and will that work or do the files need to be readable?

Reading the man page for wipe on Debian stable (version 0.15) leads me 
to think it is better to wipe a drive where the files are readable.

Any recommendations are welcome including good options to use with wipe 
and the best method to format the drive or other approaches etc.

Thanks,
Eric

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