[ale] Secure drive wipes on ext4 file system?

[pbcartwright at gmail.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On 12/11/2014 09:30 AM, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
> I have external USB drives that I need to do a secure wipe on regularly. I
> have been using the 'shred' command but I just read that shred does not
> really work will on journaling file systems.
>
> The only other think I can think of is to do a manual 'dd' to the drive to
> write over every single sector.
>
> Thoughts?
>
 my corporate laptop procedure is to use Gdisk to wipe it...
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO9581

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