[lug] drive free space "wiper" recommendation

[David L. Anselmi]

Glenn Murray wrote:
> I'm claiming that the risk that
> something valuable is going to be swiped off of one my old hard drives
> is negligible.   The common crook isn't going to spend a lot trying to
> recover dubious data from a wiped drive, and if the government wants
> to throw that much resources at it then I'm toast anyway.

Indeed.  So all you really need is dd if=/dev/urandom ...

Dave