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Re:fdisk of cfdisk would have sufficed

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 29, 2005 10:57 PM
I agree that deleting a partition is not a secure method of erasing a drive. However, the author decided to use DBAN "when one of my computers became hopelessly perplexed after multiple installations of various Linux and Windows operating systems." For this purpose, deleting the partition(s) would have worked.

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