[ale] Nuking a drive

[BruceG]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 13:28, BruceG wrote:
> > Anyone know the best quick way to nuke a drive to make all its contents
> > unrecoverable?
>
> You could zero it out using dd. I zero'd a floppy as follows:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 2>/home/bgriffis/zerofloppy
>
> (you don't need the 2>/home/bgriffis/zerofloppy = that just tells you how
> many records in/out). You could probably retrieve the data with a good bit
> of effort, but that should do the trick for most instances.


But that DBAN looks a LOT cooler and a LOT more secure!