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[ILUG] Wipe the Hard disk

[ILUG] Wipe the Hard disk

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Wed Jun 27 16:14:26 IST 2007


Kevin Chen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm try using a Program called "wipe" to clean out my old hard disk
> (40G). But seems take a very long time to do it, It took me 1 hour now
> and not even look like will finish soon, maybe because it's my 1st
> time using this program, but does usually take this long? what if I
> want to clean out a 200G would that take me ages? any good suggestion
> welcome! : )
> 
> Regard,

disk=/dev/sda
shred -n1 $disk

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00023.html

Pádraig.



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