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Re:FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive... by cuckcuckspruce on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @06:58PM (#11293704)
Zeroing should be sufficient on any recent drive[0]. The remanence of modern magnetic drives is so low that zero should be sufficient to wipe out whatever is there.

[0] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10464/why-is-wri...

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Re:FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive... by duaneb on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @06:59PM (#11293708)
Good to know!
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