[Tfug] Drive erase options?

[christopher floess]

I think there was a thread about this in the last couple of months. 
Check the archives. People seemed to have lots of opinions about how to 
get rid of an old HD.

-- chris

On 01/13/2010 04:45 AM, Zack Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Tom Rini<trini at kernel.crashing.org>  wrote:
>    
>> Hey guys.  I'm looking to clean up some odds and ends around the house
>> and looking for good and preferably Linux based (since at least some of
>> the machines are powerpc) disk erasers.  Standalone (like memtest86) is
>> also possible, at least for some of these I think.  Options?  Thanks!
>>      
> DBAN.  Comes in both x86 and PPC versions.
>
> http://www.dban.org/download
>
> I've found the USB erasing in the>  2.0 versions to be flaky and crash, YMMV.
>
> - Zack
>
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