Aug 27 2008

How To: Erase A Linux Hard Drive

Last week I talked about repartitioning a linux hard drive.  That method was fine for repairing a damaged partition but did nothing to delete data that could possibly be recovered.  Although there may be no definitive way to delete data and prevent it from ever being recovered, there are definitely some ways to make it [...]

Aug 19 2008

How To: Partitioning A Linux Hard Drive

A lot of my friends who use linux still don’t use it for partitioning and repartitioning their hard drives or for making and deleting partitions.  From reading some of the information available about formatting hard drives under linux, you would think that it is infinitely hard.  Most of the stuff I’ve come across recommends that [...]