[TriLUG] Disk Wipers

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Seeing as I work for the government, the Army requires us to perform a
DoD wipe ...so we're using a DBAN-like utility ...that runs from a linux
live-cd platform. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Joseph Mack NA3T
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:15 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Disk Wipers

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Craig Taylor wrote:

> The intention is for a non-profit to use donated disks to place new 
> images on them. As a 'encouragement' measure they're wanting to claim 
> some degree of security in the 'wipe-iness'. For me, I would be fine 
> with a 'dd if=/dev/[zero|rand] of=' mechanism like some have mentioned

> but it's a piece of mind thing for the donor companies I believe...

rand will be paralysingly slow for this. Try /dev/urand for more speed.

Joe

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