[ale] erasing ext3 filesystems securely

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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:24:26PM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> I don't need CIA level deletion here, but I would like to be reasonably 
> certain that noone could restore my data after the drive is returned.

There's always the likes of:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hdc bs=2048

To write random data everywhere..

followed by:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=2048

to zero it all out so you don't get screwy partition tables

replacing /dev/hdc with the appropriate device..

 - Pizza
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