Re: scrubbing hard drives ??

Thanks to all :-))

Royce Williams wrote:
> Tom wrote, On 7/11/2005 6:20 AM:
>
>>> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 21:04 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
>>> What should non-Linux people do for a quick wipe before donating the
>>> box?
>>
>>
>> http://dban.sourceforge.net - DBAN is a simple linux boot floppy (or CD)
>> that does various diskwipe routines, from simple zeroing to the
>> seventeen-pass military grade stuff. Works quite well...
>
I passed this along.

>
> Gotta heartily side with Tom on this one. Passing "autonuke" to the
> boot prompt does a short DoD wipe of all detected drives without
> additional user intervention -- and the floppy can be removed after
> the wipe starts. The boot prompt explains the options pretty clearly.
> I've had success giving this floppy to non-technical types, and I've
> never heard anything back other than "it worked great!"
>
The "non-technical types" may come around asking for disks.
There are people who don't want to download and burn stuff, yet they are
willing to pass along their boxes under the right conditions.

> If you fire up in interactive mode, it has lots of options to play with,
> too. It also shows the system load while it's running. It's worth
> popping a spare drive into a machine just to explore it.
>
> -royce
>

IT managers should be able to do their own, but maybe some well placed
gifts would encourage the release of more boxes into our re-use program.
We have wannabe users lining up.
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Received on Mon Jul 11 10:44:21 2005