On Thu, 21 May 2009, Jonathan Brown wrote:
> slug@nks.net wrote on Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:35 AM On Behalf Of William
> Coulter:
>> I can't find the thread that talked about a DOD level of cleaning a hard
>> drive. I thought that it was about a distro but I can't remember where I
>> put that info. Plus, I had to do a clean install of my main system when
>> the hard drive crashed a few weeks ago, so that info could have been on
>> it. It needs to run from a CD and work with SATA hard drives. Deleting
>> NTFS partitions would be great too.
> dd_rescue /dev/zero /dev/sd(x) from any live linux environment (drives
> should not be mounted ususally) will do the trick no matter what kind of
> partitions/filesystems are on there.
If you're worried about industrial (or ether) spies, then you may want to go
further (multiple overwrites with random data, for starters), but yes, this
will do nicely for home use.
> Rip Linux is a great minimal live environment (the non-X version is what
> we use at work) and works great for this type of thing.
Any bootable thing should have dd (I hope you don't need dd_rescue),
/dev/zero, and SATA support.
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