Quote Originally Posted by Glass View Post
dban. Need to check this name. It is basically a disk nuker. You can hit this app and it will trash your hard drive as fast as it can. I think you can run it silently.
For secure file deleting I use shred. This command will give 25 passes. Here is my output for test.txt

shred -n 25 -u -v -z test.txt

shred: test.txt: pass 1/26 (random)...
shred: test.txt: pass 2/26 (000000)...
shred: test.txt: pass 3/26 (444444)...
shred: test.txt: pass 4/26 (777777)...
shred: test.txt: pass 5/26 (333333)...
shred: test.txt: pass 6/26 (492492)...
shred: test.txt: pass 7/26 (dddddd)...
shred: test.txt: pass 8/26 (cccccc)...
shred: test.txt: pass 9/26 (924924)...
shred: test.txt: pass 10/26 (ffffff)...
shred: test.txt: pass 11/26 (555555)...
shred: test.txt: pass 12/26 (111111)...
shred: test.txt: pass 13/26 (random)...
shred: test.txt: pass 14/26 (6db6db)...
shred: test.txt: pass 15/26 (aaaaaa)...
shred: test.txt: pass 16/26 (249249)...
shred: test.txt: pass 17/26 (888888)...
shred: test.txt: pass 18/26 (b6db6d)...
shred: test.txt: pass 19/26 (222222)...
shred: test.txt: pass 20/26 (db6db6)...
shred: test.txt: pass 21/26 (bbbbbb)...
shred: test.txt: pass 22/26 (999999)...
shred: test.txt: pass 23/26 (eeeeee)...
shred: test.txt: pass 24/26 (666666)...
shred: test.txt: pass 25/26 (random)...
shred: test.txt: pass 26/26 (000000)...
shred: test.txt: removing
shred: test.txt: renamed to 00000000
shred: 00000000: renamed to 0000000
shred: 0000000: renamed to 000000
shred: 000000: renamed to 00000
shred: 00000: renamed to 0000
shred: 0000: renamed to 000
shred: 000: renamed to 00
shred: 00: renamed to 0
shred: test.txt: removed