[TriLUG] disk-wiping tool?

[Jason Browne]

Yeah,

Zero out the drive I believe should do it!

Boot with Knoppix
Or
Toms Root Boot Disk will work http://www.toms.net/rb/

>From a root command prompt:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=65536

This will write zeroes to the first 32mb of your Hard Drive.


Hope this helps,

Jason

Christopher L Merrill said:
> I need to wipe some hard drives on various old machines before
> they are disposed of.  Is there a Linux distribution-on-a-floppy
> that can do this?  I'm thinking of something similar to "parted",
> which is available as an ISO image of a floppy, so I can use it
> on any system, regardless of the original OS.
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
> I would have googled...but I wasn't sure what terms to search for :(
>
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