[oclug] How do I nuke the contents of my hard drive?

[Patrick Smith]

Johnathan Hicks wrote:
> I'm going to be sending my Linux hard drive back to Fujitsu for RMA 
> tomorrow morning (Friday), and thought that it might be wise to erase 
> the contents of the drive before I do. This is still possible because 
> the drive hasn't had a catastrophic failure yet. In fact, the drive 
> apparantly stopped misbehaving just after I recieved my RMA #. ;-)
> Are there any recommendations on how to nuke the contents and what to 
> use to do it?

One way is 'badblocks -w ...'.
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