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Eben King wrote:
>
> How clean does it have to be? What are the resources at the recipient's
> disposal? How much is your data worth to him/her? The DOD uses
> incineration, degaussing, or shredding, IIRC; some people would be stymied
> by simply removing /dev/hda1. It all depends.
>
> Probably "cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda" suffices for most purposes. If that's
> not enough, how about several repetitions of "cat /dev/random > /dev/hda"?
>
Well, I don't want to totally destroy it, it will go with the 'puter. I
have personal and financial data on it. I'm looking for a good secure
re-format tool to wipe it (in windoze I used SuperShredder to wipe files
off clean with 3 passes of 0's and 1's).
./B
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