drive wipe

[Aaron Toponce]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:58:15PM -0600, Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote:
> What does one use to wipe a drive, what application? I have a few that I
> need to clean up...and overwrite, to protect patient data. 

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

Want to contest that the above command securely deletes data? See the
following link, then get back to me: http://16systems.com/zero/index.html

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