clean data from partition

thumper · #1 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007

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.

Thanks
Thumper

porter · #2 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007

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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