How to electronically eradicate, expunge, extirpate, obliterate digital dat: PuppyLinux

This is an old revision of SecureErase made by coolpup on 2010-10-11 03:11:27.

Data may be encrypted before deletion: Encryption

Data may be permanently deleted by using these two commands consecutively, e.g. sda drive:

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Perform dd operations with unmounted drives/partitions only (a LiveDVD, or USB, is useful in this case).

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