[TriLUG] HD Block Size (newbieish question)

[Joseph Tate]

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There is a tool called BCwipe, which does a better job.  urandom will 
take a heck of a long time if there is not enough entropy on the 
system.  Google for bcwipe to find it.  (I've got an iso that has tom's 
root boot plus bcwipe on it if you're interested).

Joseph

B Smith wrote:

| I'm about to give an older computer to a friend of mine, but before I 
do so I would like to clean the hard drive thoroughly. I was thinking 
that a few ` dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda ` would do the job, but am 
unsure of what block size to use. Is there an easy way to find out the 
hard drive's block size?
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| Thanks a ton!
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