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clean data from partition

Anyone know of an automated utility that will fill a designated partition with random data then delete the data?
We have several harddrives that need certain partitions cleaned of sensitive data before they are placed back in service.

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If you have a /dev/random you could pipe it into "dd" to write directly over the complete partition.

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/partition

then do mkfs on the partition again.
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