[Novalug] Disk Wipe Software?

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 13:26:33 EDT 2009


On Saturday 01 August 2009 1:12:06 pm Keith Bennett wrote:
> All -
> 
> What is the current tool of choice for securely wiping drives?
> 
> I want to wipe a hard drive, and DBAN did not work; it reported an  
> error and said it might be caused by a bad sector.  That surprised me  
> because it's been functioning fine; although I guess there could be a  
> bad sector that I wouldn't encounter.

Disks often reallocate to backup sectors if they notice one is bad.  You can 
check with smartmontools.

As to how to wipe: Boot from a live cd and use "shred" or dd some /dev/zero or 
/dev/urandom over the drive a few times.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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