[thelist] Linux diskwipe tool?

[Michael Pemberton]

Philippe Jadin wrote:

> 1. Format / delete / wathever
> 2. Fill them with other stupid data (I really mean *fill* them)
> 3. Format again
>
> Does it make sense ?

I am dealling with the same type of thing at work at the moment, we use 
gdisk to wipe to drives.  It is the command line tool that symantec 
include with ghost.  It has a switch "-dodwipe" that, when deleteing a 
partition, writes random data to the sepace *9* times before tagging the 
sector clean.  It is called dodwipe because it is apparently secure 
enough to please the Dept. of Defence.  There is also an option to 
customise thise to repeat the process more / less than 9 times.

I don't have the manual on hand, but if you want to contact me offlist, 
I can try go into a bit more detail when I get back into the office.

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