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Re: Secure Erase for PCs?
Dale Thorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's a hundred times easier to do tools for the IBM PC. I make
> utilities for the PC, and it would take no more than ten or fifteen
> minutes to cook this one up.
It took me less than ten minutes...
> But nobody answered my question: Is there a shortcut way to do the
> wipe, say, thirty times? Ordinarily, I'd run the program thirty
> times, which would consist of a data write followed by a flush,
> which would take 30x amount of time.
Try this in Linux...
#!/bin/csh
set n=1
loop:
cat /dev/urandom >/tmp/fill
rm /tmp/fill
@ n = $n + 1
if ( $n < 30 ) then
goto loop
endif