How to completely erase hard drive? [duplicate]
Solution 1:
The tool named wipe deletes data permanently on HDD. To install it using terminal
sudo apt-get install wipe
To wipe out all data within a whole HDD type in terminal.
sudo wipe /dev/sdaX
where X is your partition.
Solution 2:
Would this be something you'd be looking for?
sudo -i
shred -f -n 5 -z [Location of drive]
If you want to make shred do more distortion-application, then bring up shred's help:
shred --help
or
man shred