full-disclosure - Erasing a hard disk easily

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Message-ID: <20040712231942.GA12962@sentinelchicken.org>
From: tim-security at sentinelchicken.org (Tim)
Subject: Erasing a hard disk easily

> [ the command for dd overwrite with zeros is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd? ]

This is probably perfectly sufficient for what you need.  However,
choices are always good:
  http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Many algorithms available and comes on a handy boot CD.

tim