I'd just do something like:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdb
do that 10 times or so, and it'll be clean
Eric Richardson spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> 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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