Reply To: How to erase all data / format hard drives?

[macondoMember]

I use shred too. I go by partitions at a time:

# shred -fuvz -n9 /dev/sda1 (press Enter)

and continue with sda2, sda3, etc by default shred goes 3 times per partition and the fourth time fills it up with zeroes, I go even further and do it 10 times (9 shredding and 1 with zeroes)

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