Re: Securely wipe laptop hard drive

[Pádraig Brady]

On 24/09/2021 12:06, jedenfalco via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
> I have a laptop and want to securely wipe the hard drive. It would be good to 
> be able to wipe out an directory tree (e.g. /home) but it seems that dd can 
> only wipe an entire drive.
>
> This means that I have to remove the hard drive and connect it externally to 
> another PC to wipe it.

I'm not following exactly,
but secure wipe of file trees has been discussed previously at:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#shred