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“Shredding” a Disk in Linux

Monday, August 18, 2008

Are you about to discard a flash card, hard drive, or other sort of recordable media?  WAIT!  Whoever gets it after you can read all your data, even if you delete it! WARNING: THIS POST EXPLAINS HOW TO DESTROY DATA ON A HARD DRIVE.  BY FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS YOU AGREE TO 1) NOT USE THIS [...]

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Making a Floppy Disk Image in Linux

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

1 Introduction It took me a while of searching for this information, so I thought I would document this for both myself and anyone else interested. 2 The Process First, make an empty disk image: $ dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img $ mkfs.msdos floppy.img Next mount your image. Make sure that /mnt/floppy exists! # mount [...]

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