Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:21:03 -0500

Shail Bains wrote:
>
> Linux equivalent of WipeFile: srm (Secure ReMove) at
> metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/srm.lsm
>
> Dunno of an equivalent for WipeDisk, though...

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX : >

To be really sure I think that should be followed by /dev/urandom
then zero again.

AFAIK DoD military grade wiping is zero->random->zero->random->zero.

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