Librado Pamintuan wrote:

>  With regards to hard drives, it's best if you can buy a 'degausser' (search 
> in google) then drill holes in them and remove the
electronics as well before throwing them out in the garbage.
> 

I sold a hard disk drive on eBay recently. Before I removed it from my
Linux machine I ran the command:

yes "There is no data on this disk" > /dev/hdc

I was quite happy that I was safe after this. The command took a few
minutes to complete.

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