Re: Secure Erase for PCs?

Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> wrote:

It's a hundred times easier to do tools for the IBM PC. I make utilities for the PC, and it would take no more than ten or fifteen minutes to cook this one up.

It took me less than ten minutes...

But nobody answered my question: Is there a shortcut way to do the wipe, say, thirty times? Ordinarily, I'd run the program thirty times, which would consist of a data write followed by a flush, which would take 30x amount of time.

Try this in Linux... #!/bin/csh set n=1 loop: cat /dev/urandom >/tmp/fill rm /tmp/fill @ n = $n + 1 if ( $n < 30 ) then goto loop endif