Information Security vs Business question here:
IT department asks me for a way to securely remove data from a hard drive because they want to sell old hardware.
I suggest DBAN as a secure wipe tool.
Problem: DBAN will remove every partition / hard drive it comes across including the recovery partition.
Question: is there a way to remove data from the "work" partition in a secure way while keeping the recovery partition?
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda1
cut it, provided/dev/sda
is the primary drive,/dev/sda1
is the primary partition, and/dev/sda2
is the recovery partition? Or is that not how that works?