[ale] Nuking a drive

[Geoffrey]

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?

Depends on the extent of your paranoia.  Boot with a rescue disk/floppy, 
then reformat the drives, write nulls to them, filling them up, then 
reformat the drives..

Worried about three letter organizations?  Don't return the drives...

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft