For all practical purposes, if you have a live linux CD you can boot from, you could run badblocks -w command, which does a destructive read write test to the whole partition/drive you run it on. Of course, it depends on how dead the drive is, since you may get a lot of errors if it is dying. If this succeeds, it should take care of most casual attempts to retrieve the data.
-----Original Message----- From: Brad Bourn [mailto:brad@summitrd.com] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:16 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] wipe, clean, etc
I have a new laptop that the harddrive is dying on.
I have a warranty replacement on the way.
I have our company's source code on the drive.
I just got the thing to boot (probably for the last time)
Is there a simple command I can run to make sure that the data on the drive after I delete the source code dir is completely gone?
I'm using reiserfs.
B-)
P.S. don't know how long it will stay up, so time is of the essance
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