[ale] Nuking a drive

[James P. Kinney III]

A:
A:  D:\setup.exe

Installing Microsoft operating system is a guaranteed way of nuking a
drive!

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:20, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> MIN=1
> MAX=10
> 
> while [ $MIN -ne $MAX ]
> do
>    echo "Pass: "${MIN}
>    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/drive
>    MIN=`expr $MIN + 1`
> done
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 13:28, BruceG wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 May 2004 12:41, Matthew Brown wrote:
> > > I am returning two Dell servers thta have served me well.  It's
> > > End-of-Lease time.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > 
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