[vox-tech] Wiping Hard Drive

Bob Scofield scofield at omsoft.com
Sat Feb 3 11:36:44 PST 2024


Hi,

I want to recycle an old desktop. I'm planning to wipe the hard drive 
with this command:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M

Can I just run this from the command line? Or do I have to use a flash 
drive with Linux on it and run it from the command line of the Linux on 
the flash drive?

Thanks.

Bob


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