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Preparing your HDD for Ebay selling (Shreding/Wiping the data)

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May 282012
 

If you have a Linux box ready (or live cd) and you want to erase the data on your harddrive before you sell it on Ebay, you may want to run:

shred -v -n 1 /dev/sdX

where X is your drive. You can set the iterations to a higher number than 1, but as my drive was encrypted anyway, I thought 1 is enough.

Easy!

 Posted by Mirzad at 13:44
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