Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 21:05, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
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> Is there a simple way to do that on Linux?

On Windows theres a GUI tool that´s open source...

http://eraser.sourceforge.net it includes several data-erasing
standards to choose from.

For Linux there´s "wipe" but it shows it was last updated in 2004, so
I wouldn´t be surprised it it was developed for 2.4 kernels..

http://wipe.sourceforge.net/

But perhaps you won´t get into dependencies hell...

Here is another one more recent and with GUI...
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/content.php?312-Secure-Erase-With-bootable-CD-USB-Linux..-Point-and-Click-Method/view/2

FC