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lensman3 · 02-29-2008, 09:45 PM

My Fedora core 8 has a program already install called "shred". It does multiple writes to existing files and then deletes the file.

I'd kill my /home directory and the /etc/passwd file and /etc/group file. The problem you might have it that the machine might quit half way through wiping out the password file because the OS couldn't find a legal user. Booting up in single user mode might get around this.

OR

Just put your disk in a microwave oven and turn it on for a couple of minutes. Get the disk over the Curie point (Is the Curie point where magnetic material forget their magnetism or something else point)?

02-29-2008, 09:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
lensman3 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, Colorado USA Posts: 436 OS: xp 64 sp2 Fedora Core 8 (vmware xp core 8 x32) Minix	Re: selling eee pc w/linux os need 2 clean out memory. How? My Fedora core 8 has a program already install called "shred". It does multiple writes to existing files and then deletes the file. I'd kill my /home directory and the /etc/passwd file and /etc/group file. The problem you might have it that the machine might quit half way through wiping out the password file because the OS couldn't find a legal user. Booting up in single user mode might get around this. OR Just put your disk in a microwave oven and turn it on for a couple of minutes. Get the disk over the Curie point (Is the Curie point where magnetic material forget their magnetism or something else point)?