[vox-tech] Wiping Hard Drive

[Brian E. Lavender]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 01:22:46PM -0700, Timothy D Thatcher wrote:
>    Hi Bob,
>    I generally agree with Bill K, though I haven't used that software he
>    mentions particularly; you'll want to _not_ boot off the drive you want
>    to wipe to be sure you catch all the data. Otherwise you risk chugging
>    along with the wipe until you hit something critical in the filesystem
>    at some unknown point, and the system will destabilize/crash before the
>    dd is finished.You could be left with a) a drive you can't boot and b)
>    no idea how much of your data is actually left on there that could
>    potentially be recovered by the next person.
>    I'd suggest using a live boot USB/CD/etc of some sort, or swap the
>    drive into another machine, or pull it and use a USB-SATA adapter on
>    another machine, something like that.
>    You may also check out the "shred" command, which is probably already
>    installed by default, or "wipe", which is probably not (but should be
>    in your distro's regular repos.)

The DBAN should work. I wiped a few drives recently using shred. 
Put the drive in a caddy. Check the device it gets. Shred that device.

# dmesge
shred <device it got ie sdb>

# shred /dev/sdb

Be careful not to shred the device you are using!

Brian
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