dc3dd wipe=/dev/<drive> or dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive> ..or replace with zero with urandom for randomness. These will do a 1-pass to the entire disk with zeros. You can even confirm with a hexeditor. If someone still gets your residual data by physically playing around with the platters in a clean environment they probably deserve it =) -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > I have a few older PCs that I want to wipe the drives very well and > donate. Googling, I see quite a few apps to do so. What are current > top recs and approaches any of you have done? > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120119/bd8751ce/attachment.html>