-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2013-07-16 at 16:33 -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
Maybe the safest course is to zero both the MBR and the label with dd?
Not really, just issue ATA secure erase (unless your concerns goes beyond that.. i.e malware in the drive's firmware, which its existence cannot usually be proven beyond reasonable doubt)
With the added advantage that this is done by the disk firmware, not the computer; ie, you do not load the computer at all. You could do a hundred disks at once, if you can connect them all, that is :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHmkUoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V1AgCeO58JGPXYCn3v6me3JioNwG1t WX0AnjECgeAYjbd2SNxJv54tpGIJHKah =mfgK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----