More of a pre installing question - DBAN Vs USB

[Moltke]

[member=7109]Moltke[/member]
Thanks, but I need to "secure wipe" the HDD's not just erase them, hence the DBAN need.

[member=11791]az2020[/member] and [member=7644]DeepThought[/member] and Jerry.
Thanks for the info, will be trying that this weekend and getz backz to youz here.

[member=6733]TheDead[/member] I thought that might work but you're probably right. There's also this https://launchpad.net/gdiskdump

GUI for diskdump (dd). Harddrive clone and imaging tool.

You should be able to install it with

Code:

sudo apt-get install gdiskdump

can't try cause I'm not in LL/Ubuntu right now but you can first check with

Code:

apt policy gdiskdump

whether it is or not available.

Sometimes I use the dd command to "burn" USB flash drives. From my notes:

Format:
  Find the device
      df -h

While this works I think

Code:

lsblk

gives a cleaner output.

Test:
  qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sdx

This is a nice tip I use qemu/Vbox quite often and never ocurred to me that for trying live USBs. Thanks for sharing!