[nflug] After many, many google searches, I have to admit defeat and ask for help...

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

If you need multiple passes, couldn't you just:

for i in `seq 20`; do
 	dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/partitionorwhatever
done

...and then get something to eat? I don't see the problem with
"scripting" it. I don't know what "certified" would be, but this is as
good as it gets without destroying the disk.

Thus spake Brad Bartram:

> The problem with dd is that - although it's standalone, and I could run it
> through multiple passes,  I would have to manually run it through those
> passes - or script something to do it automatically.  I'm dealing with
> multiple terabytes of data that I need to certify as being forensically
> sanitized on disk. That's why I was looking to something that already
> performed the operations to DoD spec.
>
> Ncrypt looks interesting.
>
> Thanks
>
> On 9/13/07, mark k <mkopenski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking the same thing dd a few times on the partition should do
>> it.
>>
>> On 9/13/07, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com > wrote:
>>>
>>> Am I missing something here or wouldn't dd do the trick?
>>>
>>> Darin Perusich wrote:
>>>> Have you looked at ncrypt? I think it will provide what you're looking
>>>> for.
>>>>
>>>> http://ncrypt.sourceforge.net/
>>>> http://linux.die.net/man/8/ncrypt
>>>>
>>>> Brad Bartram wrote:
>>>>> Hey guys (and girls);
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for a utility that will run under linux.  Preferably
>>>>> command-line, rather than GUI.
>>>>>
>>>>> I need a utility that will wipe a partition, of my choosing, of all
>>>>> data to DoD spec.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are my limitations -
>>>>>
>>>>>   as I said, it has to be a standalone utility or some obscure option
>>>
>>>>> to an existing utility
>>>>>   it has to be to a verifiable specification - i.e., write with 0,
>>>>> then with 1, then with FF and repeat several times (DoD spec)
>>>>>
>>>>> I've looked high and low and can find windows utilities from now
>>>>> until next week that do what I need but I'm having a beast of a time
>>>>> finding a utility in linux that doesn't want to do an automated
>>>>> thrashing of my entire system on boot or anything I don't want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Brad
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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