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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:29:09 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Chris Hastie <lists@oak-wood.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cleaning data off a remote machine
Message-ID:  <20080728192801.X44373@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20080728172304.dk4itqk4aooc80wg@imp.oak-wood.co.uk>
References:  <20080728172304.dk4itqk4aooc80wg@imp.oak-wood.co.uk>

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> don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is the best
> way to remove all data from the hard drive? I have no problem if this removes
> the OS along the way, but ideally I would like to be able to do what ever I do
> from an SSH session. If there's no alternative I can arange KVMoIP console
> access.
remove all your files, then


cat /dev/zero >file

on every partition





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