Eraser - Secure deletion tool

[petergriffin]

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:

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

[doodab]

Boot from a Linux live image and use dd:

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.

[petergriffin]

Boot from a Linux live image and use dd:

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.

[Scrag Meister]

Anyone used this GNU Licenced secure deletion tool.

Look for something to WIPE an hdd or 2 and this seems to do the trick.