installation question
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installation question
I have installed Linux Mint without wiping hdd with dban first. I am just curious is Linux setup option to erase drive during setup is basically the same as dban quick erase?
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Re: installation question
No. It appears that "DBAN quick erase" is (anything but quick and) an overwrite of the entire drive with zeroes. Mint's "Erase Disk and..."option just reinitializes the partition tables and filesystem(s). Note though that you can do much the same after the fact with e.g.
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Generally you should only (and only potentially) worry about that sort of stuff when you sell the drive...
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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/zero bs=256M status=progress
sudo rm /zero --- iff your root partition is the only partition (you'd do the same on other partitions if not) and save some very minor details such as sectors part of the new partition table but not the old.Generally you should only (and only potentially) worry about that sort of stuff when you sell the drive...