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Re: Securely wipe laptop hard drive
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Evan Greenup |
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Re: Securely wipe laptop hard drive |
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Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:30:48 +0000 |
+1 Here,
If shred can support shredding directory tree recursively, it would be awesome.
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Friday, September 24th, 2021 at 9:06 PM, jedenfalco via GNU coreutils
General Discussion <coreutils@gnu.org> wrote:
> I have a laptop and want to securely wipe the hard drive. It would be good to
> be able to wipe out an directory tree (e.g. /home) but it seems that dd can
> only wipe an entire drive.
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> This means that I have to remove the hard drive and connect it externally to
> another PC to wipe it.