[Cialug] What are people using for a USB/LiveCD for erasing hard drives?

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2009-11-16 at 11:30:31, kristau wrote:
>If DBAN can't do that, then look at System Rescue CD (sysresccd.org).
>You can boot that into RAM, then use dd or shred to wipe the drives.

That's kind of what i do--i just grab the nearest bootable CD (Debian, 
Red Hat, OpenBSD... whatever) and then use a command such as:
    # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1048576
Of course, change "/dev/sda" as appropriate. If the machine has multiple 
drives, you can background that (by adding "&" to the end of the line) 
and start a second or third one as necessary.

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