Um, I'm not interested (yet) in rendering the laptop inert. I'm looking
for options to clean the "empty space" on the drive.
On 4/21/07, * Jonathan Bringhurst* <fintler@gmail.com
<mailto:fintler@gmail.com>> wrote:
I'd say boot with a knoppix live cd and run something like the
following:
shred -vfz -n 10 /dev/hda
That'll overwrite the hard disk 10 times with 0s. Increase the n count
proportional to your level of paranoia :)
-Jon
On 4/21/07, Greg Lopp <lopp@pobox.com <mailto:lopp@pobox.com>> wrote:
> A friend believes that her corporate masters will be letting her
go soon.
> They will soon after want her corporate laptop back. Not that
she has
> anything to hide, but she'd like to scrub the NTFS partition to make
> undelete/forensics difficult. I have a couple of ubuntu boxes
that could
> employ a usb enclosure for this....
>
> Any thoughts, pointers?
>
>
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