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dd is a great tool to overwrite disks quickly to erase all information on it (if you want to return them on warranty or sell them)((if you are required by law or are really paranoid, use shred, which overwrites the disk with random data, 25 times by default. But: overwriting once is enough to make the disk unrecoverable by professional data recovery services. If i had a disk with real top secret information, | dd is a great tool to overwrite disks quickly to erase all information on it (if you want to return them on warranty or sell them)((if you are required by law or are really paranoid, use shred, which overwrites the disk with random data, 25 times by default. But: overwriting once is enough to make the disk unrecoverable by professional data recovery services. If i had a disk with real top secret information, | ||
blog/run_dd_with_progress_information.txt · Last modified: 2011-08-23 09:01 by brb