[ale] Nuking a drive

[BruceG]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 12:41, Matthew Brown wrote:
> I am returning two Dell servers thta have served me well.  It's
> End-of-Lease time.
>
> Anyone know the best quick way to nuke a drive to make all its contents
> unrecoverable?

You could zero it out using dd. I zero'd a floppy as follows:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 2>/home/bgriffis/zerofloppy

(you don't need the 2>/home/bgriffis/zerofloppy = that just tells you how many 
records in/out). You could probably retrieve the data with a good bit of 
effort, but that should do the trick for most instances.