On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:42:24 -0600
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:58:09 +0000,
Mike C <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In the event that you want to give a Fedora machine to a friend but want to
> remove sensitive files first, an obvious tool is the shred command.
An easy way to do this is to boot with a livecd and the copy /dev/zero to
the raw disk devices (or use a destructive write test with badblocks). Once
that is complete do a fresh install.
If you are going to blank the media use the security erase command to the
drive. That is what it is there for.