Brian Masinick
Yeah, shred is one way and a fairly easy way to do it.
Depending on how serious you are about completely wiping everything out, I think that shred even has options to write, rewrite and zero out data multiple times.
Why? Even when data is erased, sometimes there are obscure traces that can be pieced together and “recovered” to some extent. Using either shred or something else like dd to write over the data is good, but if you are particularly paranoid about the data, repeatedly write different patterns of 1 and 0 over the data, then zero it and that will reduce the chance of recovering any unwanted information on the drive.
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