[ale] Nuking a drive

[Greg]

Actually, the 3 letter orgs shred their drives (just like a wood chipper,
but for HD's).

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:22 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Nuking a drive
>
>
> 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...
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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