I'm not sure what there is that will do this under linux, but the program that I linked you too doesn't care about what file system your drive has. If for what ever reason you don't want to use it, look for a program that uses the secure erase ata command. Any other programs may not completely remove data since they are using there own formatting methods where as secure erase will truly remove everything. I think there was 1 case where a large team were able to get something back, but that was a 30k jpg and it took them 3 months. On 17/05/2010, Ibraam Wahib <ibraam.wahib@gmail.com> wrote:
hello my friend: i got a mistake, its hard disk using linux, i don' know exactly in which file system it partetioned. so i think its better to got a linux utility? or command line to destroy all data without method to recover it? thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Mustill-Rose To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] data format.
Slave the drive in another box, download http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml And then run it on the drive.
Note that you have to have the drive connected directly to the board as apposed to via usb, since the program uses the secure erase command built into the ata command set to whipe the drive which it is unable to do via usb.
Hth.
On 17/05/2010, Ibraam Wahib <ibraam.wahib@gmail.com> wrote:
hello friends: need quick help please, how can I format a hard disk which can not be recovered forever by any means? )data destroyed( the hard was have windows format then formatted and now have Linux, I need to delete all partitions and delete any data to be unusable anymore even via military means. can we do this? for further information contact me off list. thanks ibraam _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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