Hello Davina,
Not that I don't trust your process, but you wiped the disk using Linux O/S and
according to that O/S the disk is indeed erased, but have you thought that,
there might be other O/S or software that can still read it?
One time, our manager even suggested that we comply with the RCMP
'certification' (yes, the RCMP also has a process regarding this issue) in
destroying disks and tapes, but too much work, so we decided not to, just stay
with our in-house process.
>>> Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM 06/02/05 8:59 am >>>
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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