David Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:07:55 +0000
> Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote:
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>> If you don't find anything to run from within Suse, then try Dban.
>> http://dban.sourceforge.net/
>>     
>
> Yes, I saw dban, but unfortunately the disk is a usb disk
>
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>> You could just use dd to repeatedly copy random data to the disk.
>> Maybe alternate between random, all 1's and all 0's.
>>
>>
>>     
scrub will do that for you.
"Scrub  iteratively  writes  patterns  on  files or disk devices to make
retrieving the data more difficult.  Scrub operates  in  one  of  three
modes:"
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