[plug] wiping a hard disk clean

[Leon Brooks]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:05, Russell Steicke wrote:
>  dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdXX bs=1M

> But this will block waiting for random data quite frequently, so use
> /dev/urandom if it's not really critical.

/dev/urandom is fine. Do it several times (at least 3) if it has the 
NSA-might-want-it-back kind of data on it.

Sigh. Won't be making tonight. )-: Conflicting non-optional appointment.

Cheers; Leon