[lug] drive free space "wiper" recommendation

[Sean Reifschneider]

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On 10/09/2010 05:19 PM, karl horlen wrote:
> i need to ship a computer back that's under warranty. i've already
> moved / deleted the files off of the drive that i deemed sensitive. th

I'd just run "badblocks -svw -p 1 /dev/sdX" on it, booted from a Linux
rescue environment.  I'd doubt that they need it returned in a bootable
condition, I've never had any problems returning a system with a wiped
drive for service.

Sean
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