Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

[Sam Sharpe]

2009/5/29 Alan Cox :
> > 'shred' is part of coreutils (i.e. installed by default).
> > Doing something like
> >
> > shred /dev/sdX
> >
> > as root will write various bit patterns 25 times over the entire drive
> > (see the man page for more options).
>
> Whoopeeedoo. Thats still not the correct way to erase a disk.
>
> Use security erase, that is why it is there.

I use a hammer, because it wins over all other solutions on both ease
of use and catharsis.