degausser

[Eric Shubert]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 17:47 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
>> My Mom wants to decommission all her old floppies.
>>
>> Is the tool you would use to do that called a "degausser"?  Fry's said
>> they didn't have a thingy to scramble the magnetic domains on floppies
>> or tapes.
> ----
> a wipe with a very powerful magnet should be all that is needed for the
> task
> 
> Craig

Or you could run the shred program against them.

How sensitive is the data on them though, really? Doing a full format on 
them might be sufficient.

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-Eric 'shubes'