[wellylug] Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") HDD eraser

[Daniel Pittman]

marchetti <marchetti at clear.net.nz> writes:

> I want to erase the entire contents, including the Fedora OS, of a laptop's
> HDD. And thren start afresh.  I have tried the above Darik freebie, but it
> did not work, returning to the boot cue. It may be intended for Windows OS'
> only.
>
> Any suggestions?

Assuming that your data is X-in-confidence or lower, a single pass overwrite
with zero is sufficient to meet Australian[1] government standards for data
destruction.

So, boot a LiveCD and run 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/your/disk' and you are
good to go.

        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  ...and, implicitly, probably to meet the requirements for other CC
     countries, since they share products that do this.

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