[GRLUG] Disk scrubber

[Michael Mol]

dd, multiple passes, if I want to keep the drive.  .223, if I don't.

shred's nice, but slow.  On modern drives, the following works just as
well for me:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdfoo
dd if=/dev/random of=/hdfoo
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdfoo

I still use shred, but only on individual files.  I use ext3, so I
have to get around the journal:

chattr +S foo.odt
shred -fu foo.odt

I don't have data that I absolutely, positively have to keep out of
the hands of other people, though. If I did, I'd use shred and let it
run over the weekend.

On 7/24/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/24/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone have a favorite disk scrubber ( a.k.a. disk
> > wiper ) program?  It really only has to handle IDE
> > drives,  but still the biggest IDE drives.
>
> shred
>
> --tim
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