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crouse · January 16th, 2003, 11:14 AM

A quote from the artical DVNT1 posted:

"The only sure way to erase a hard drive is to "squeeze" it: writing over the old information with new data -- all zeros, for instance -- at least once, but preferably several times. A one-line command will do that for Unix users, and for others, inexpensive software from companies such as AccessData works well. "

QUESTION !!! What is that 1 line unix command??

Just for future reference...

January 16th, 2003, 11:14 AM	#7 (permalink)
crouse Ultimate Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Iowa Posts: 2,879	A quote from the artical DVNT1 posted: "The only sure way to erase a hard drive is to "squeeze" it: writing over the old information with new data -- all zeros, for instance -- at least once, but preferably several times. A one-line command will do that for Unix users, and for others, inexpensive software from companies such as AccessData works well. " QUESTION !!! What is that 1 line unix command?? Just for future reference... __________________ USA Linux Users Group OpenSUSE.us