Re: Help with wipe

Mike Garfias wrote:

>I'd just do something like:
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>dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdb
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>do that 10 times or so, and it'll be clean
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After looking at the article
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut001/pubs/secure_del.html>

it looks like for modern drives that the 8 random passes out of 35
specified in this article are part of the suggested process. I'm
assuming wipe uses something similar. Also wipe is useful on mountable
drives for single files but they must be mounted with the mand option so
the sync calls will flush the cache. As far as I understand at least.

I'll probably give this a try assuming dd will work on the raw device.

Eric

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