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Eraser - Secure deletion tool

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    Eraser - Secure deletion tool

    Anyone used this GNU Licenced secure deletion tool.

    Look for something to WIPE an hdd or 2 and this seems to do the trick.
    Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.

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    Boot from a Linux live image and use dd:
    Code:
    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX
    where 'sdX' is the disk as identified by 'dmesg'.

    Warning: it might take hours. I once wiped a 16GB memory card clean and it took about an hour.
    <Insert idea here> will never be adopted because the politicians are in the pockets of the banks!

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      #3
      Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
      Boot from a Linux live image and use dd:
      Code:
      dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX
      where 'sdX' is the disk as identified by 'dmesg'.

      Warning: it might take hours. I once wiped a 16GB memory card clean and it took about an hour.
      Depending on the underlying technology you need to do about 7 passes or something to truly wipe it as well.
      While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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        #4
        Originally posted by doodab View Post
        Depending on the underlying technology you need to do about 7 passes or something to truly wipe it as well.
        I've checked on my copy of System rescue CD, there's also the "shred" and 'wipe' tool:
        Code:
        shred -v  /dev/sdX
        Shred uses uses by default 25 overwriting passes. Wipe uses by default 35 overwriting passes.

        One thing to take in consideration is that if there's a Windows swap file on a shared partition, that should also be wiped out.

        More here:
        Sysresccd-manual-en Secure Deletion of Data - SystemRescueCd
        <Insert idea here> will never be adopted because the politicians are in the pockets of the banks!

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