[Tfug] Wiping out a hard drive

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

I last used gparted and ran badblocks with multiple read/write option.  I
cleared and tested the disk at the same time.  It failed during the first
test past so I hammered it to a lump.

Earl

Earl
On Mon, October 12, 2009 3:28 pm, Linux Media wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to wipe out any trace of my existence on a laptop hard drive.
>
> I want to keep the hard drive (otherwise I would hammer the disks until
> they were shards). I know I have cloned a drive, but not sure I have
> ever attempted to wiped one out. I do know that when I tried to clone a
> drive it took forever (24 hours before I gave up). I'm assuming it's
> somewhat the same process, and assume it would take as long. I believe
> the command is...
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<destination partition>
>
> Do I want to go with this? If so, is there some switch that would make
> it faster?
>
> Also, is it true that it's safer to 'zero it out' by doing the above
> several times?
>
> If the answer is that this will take forever no matter what switches I
> use, is there some other approach that's effective that would be faster?
>
> Thanks,
> Rocco
>
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