Open Source Linux Disk Formatting Software - Page 2

WipeOut is secure data deletion method & application. WipeOut method is designed to be fast and secure. WipeOut also has many sub schemes for faster (but not weak) wipe process .

Xorin is a secure drive erase program that provides the perfect solution to anyone who wants to secure their private data before selling or utilization their PC or drive storage. Xorin is also good in all situations where you want to ensure that deleted data stays deleted and that it can never be recovered. Xorin operates from its own Linux-based bootable environment, Linux or Windows operation system. Xorin supports all popular security methods and standards including DoD 5220.22-M. You can erase your drives unlimited times. In our free version we do not limit quantity of erasing. Also there is no program limitation for parallel drive quantity you want erase.

Ported to GNU/Linux and Solaris from FreeBSD.

ErAce is software that will over write hard drive 1-100 times. So it fulfils strictest security standards i.e. DOD 5220.22-M. In that way it is impossible to recover data. If You delete files and empty recycle bin it is possible to recover data with recovery software. ErAce will write whole hard disk and put it to zero at last cycle. After process hard drive looks like it was just came out of factory. ErAce works on Pentium or higher and AMD equivalent systems. It works even Intel based Mac computers. It needs 128 Mb of memory. With ErAce you can recycle, sell or throw away hard drive carefree. There is no way other people to recover data, pictures or documents from your disk

This is a graphical tool for formatting flash, USB, memory stick, external HDD and others on Linux, any flavour will do, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Mandriva, Debian and others. It's developed by Charlie Maere using Visual C++ in Qt3 Designer. Format USB in Linux.