Matthew on Nostr: I am securely erasing a hard drive in a computer that a customer recycled with me: ...
I am securely erasing a hard drive in a computer that a customer recycled with me:
sudo shred -v -n 1 --random-source=/dev/urandom -z /dev/sda
Did a live boot to Linux Mint and then ran that command to overwrite the data on the drive, securely erasing it.
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