Difference between revisions of "Wipe your Hard disk"
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Revision as of 18:12, 15 September 2010
shred -vfz -n 100 /dev/hda
Here /dev/hda is my whole hard disk. And I am asking shred to make (-n) 100 passes by overwriting the entire hard disk with (-z) zeros. And shred program (-f) forces the write by changing the permissions wherever necessary.
