Edward Norton said the following on 12/16/05 20:49:

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> On 12/16/05, *Jared Anderson* <PluggedIn@thegoldenedge.com 
> <mailto:PluggedIn@thegoldenedge.com>> wrote:
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>     I know this topic has come up before, but I am too lazy to look
>     into the
>     the archives ;)
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>     I'm aware of:
>     shred -vz -n 6 /dev/hdx
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>     Also dd:
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx bs=4 count=?
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>     I've seen some bootup floppy stuff, and I know most live distros have
>     the above mentioned tools; however, are these the most efficient
>     (meaning fastest) methods to cleanse a disk to dod standards?  I need
>     one opensource solution that works for x86 and PPC archs.
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>     TIA
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>     Jared
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> DBAN is what I would recommend.
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> http://dban.sf.net
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 >From my understanding, DBAN is for x86 only?