3 Aug
2006
3 Aug
'06
07:34
On 8/3/06, Per Jessen
Unmount the partition and run fdisk /dev/hdx, type m for help there and delete all the partitions you want to wipe out and create a new partition on top of that.
That doesn't actually erase any data, FYI. As others have said, to erase the disk and prevent most data-recovery attempts, you need to write something to each and every track using 'dd'.
Yes, that was the quickest solution to prevent casual attempt to read the data from the disk, for the paranoid, dd would be the better option.