[plug] Wiping disks properly

[Carl Gherardi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bromberger [mailto:james at rcpt.to]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:38 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Wiping disks properly
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:32:16AM +0800, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a product(preferably a bootable linux 
> solution)that
> > provides a nice interface to zero hard drives?
> 
> Any boot disk. And then use dd on the hard disk device (/dev/hd?)?
> 

Agreed dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd?

I want it as a corporate solution though, something I can hand a ludite to
wipe 50 machine which may have multiple partitions, filesystems and
harddrives. For this I need to propose something with a "nice" interface or
a commercial solution will be the one considered.

Carl