Disk Wipe Methods

[Bill Cavalieri]

I haven't tried it for disk wiping, but used it for file deletion.
www.geocities.com/urifrid/soft.html, and the tool is called *wp*.   Its
a command line tool available for linux and win32.

If you boot from boot disk, you should be able to wipe the whole drive
with this tool, but it will take a while since it erases file,
overwrites file location with 1's and 0's, and then random data.

-Bill

Dustin Decker wrote:

>Howdy all,
>I have an intersting project on my plate at the day job.  Once in a blue
>moon (prolly more like each full moon) we overnight a 30GB Iomega USB
>drive to a client, they put a backup of their database on it (between 4
>and 10 GB) and ship it back to us.
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>Eventually, the drive will be sent to another client.  We're dealing with
>personally identifiable information in the health care mode here, so in
>the interest of avoiding a HIPAA snaufu I'm quite serious about ensuring
>that there aren't any traces of the previous clients' db on the drive when
>it ships.  I've been making use of BCWipe on the Windows platform to
>accomplish this to the DoD 5200.28 standard, but I'm interested in
>throwing this on a Linux box to get it done as this is an extremely time
>consuming process.  (Would prefer to start it on Linux and walk away.)
>
>Any suggestions on utilities in the Linux world that can do this?
>Dustin
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