Re: Simple but effective Disk Wipe Software

[Alvin Oga <alvin.sec () Virtual Linux-Consulting com>]

hi ya

> My Director does not want to spend any money as he feel's a standard
> "format" will suffice; therefore I guess a Linux solution is the best.  I am

hummm .. he's correct to not spend $$$ 

> wondering what people would recommend, we do not have High Classified
> documents put I would like something a little more than a standard format.

loop 10x 
  dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
done

other ways to wipe a disk witout smashing the disks to smitherenes
        http://www.linux-sec.net/Txt/erase.txt

c ya
alvin