Linux-Watch: Mini-howto: Disk Blasting 101 with Linux | Linux Today

Linux-Watch: Mini-howto: Disk Blasting 101 with Linux

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SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Oct 4, 2005

“There are times when you really, really want to make sure that
there’s not one shred of readable data left on your drives. For
those times, you need a blast furnace.

“But, if all you want to do is be 99.9999% sure that there’s no
data left on your drives, DBAN (Darik’s Boot and Nuke) is for
you…”

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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