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I emailed the sender directly. To totally hose a disk, I like dd or badblocks, dd with an in of /dev/zero and an out of the disk guarantees total disk destruction backblocks with the write setting writes a pattern to EVERY byte of the disk, again guaranteeing total disk destruction. Since the disk is mounted you should be able to do it. Then just reformat. I mean really why not? ~Ben On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Cole Tuininga <[hidden email]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 11:38 -0400, Alex Pennace wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:22:06AM -0400, John Abreau wrote: > > > The customer data is centrally managed from a Linux samba > > > server, though, and I need a way to do the same type of > > > file destruction on the server. What's the recommended > > > equivalent command-line software for securely deleting files > > > on Linux? > > > > Use shred(1). > > Note that this is completely ineffective on a journalled filesystem such > as ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS... > > See the above mentioned man page for details. > > -- > Cole Tuininga <[hidden email]> > Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com) > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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