I saw this today on freshmeat.net, but it is in the Sunday list of files. I have not used it so,
this is a pass on.
Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.6 by Darik Horn - Sun, Jul 24th 2005 23:36 PDT
About: Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the
hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of
any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or
emergency data destruction.
Changes: This release contains driver updates for SATA chipsets and improved handling of
SCSI disks with odd sector counts or unusual sector sizes.
William
--- Branko <kozmo3k@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
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> Eben King wrote:
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> > 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).
>
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