Re: need to wipe a disk

Todd wrote:
I have a disk with personal information on it that I need
to wipe. Is there some cleaver way of using "dd" to write
the alphabet across it?

It's amazing how, a generation into the Internet Age,
folks still haven't discovered Google or Wikipedia.
http://google.com/search?q=dd+wipe

Any better ideas? (One pass is fine.)

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/shred.htm
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