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Freeware/Shareware Disk Space Shredder?
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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I've got an older iBook that I'm going to sell. I've been doing some financial work on it over the past few years, so I'm worried about letting the hard drive out in the wild without a through wipe and multiple overwrite.
Can anyone reccomend a free or low-cost way of doing this? OS X, Classic, Command Line utility, etc are acceptable....the way the app is implemented is less interesting to me than the app being free or cheap and working well. I'm planning a fresh OS install before letting it go, so an app that wipes and overwrites the entire drive throughly would be acceptable as well.
Thanks for your suggestions.
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Why not use Disk Utility? It's already part of OS X.
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Agreed. Disk Utility can zero the drive, which will do what you want. If you're really paran^H^H^H^H^Hconcerned, you can do the 8-way random overwrite (be warned that this will take forever. It will do a very thorough job of wiping your drive, though).
If you just want to wipe a few files rather than the entire drive, you can use rm -P. That will overwrite the files three times before deleting them. If you're selling the drive, though, just wiping the whole thing is probably the way to go (not to mention that it will make the drive nice and clean for the new owner).
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Originally posted by CharlesS:
Agreed. Disk Utility can zero the drive, which will do what you want. If you're really paran^H^H^H^H^Hconcerned, you can do the 8-way random overwrite (be warned that this will take forever. It will do a very thorough job of wiping your drive, though).
If you just want to wipe a few files rather than the entire drive, you can use rm -P. That will overwrite the files three times before deleting them. If you're selling the drive, though, just wiping the whole thing is probably the way to go (not to mention that it will make the drive nice and clean for the new owner).
8-way random overwrite it is then, thanks.
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Originally posted by OH-N'omac:
8-way random overwrite it is then, thanks.
It will work very well; just be forewarned that with a large hard drive it may take a day or two to finish.
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