hi,

My company gave me a laptop for work and after some time they will give it to another person when I quit the company so I want to make sure I don’t leave any of my data behind so which command should I run to delete my home directory to delete all the data?

is it just rm -rf /home/myname

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    25 days ago

    On a semi-related note, I’ve had a few external hdds die with data I’d have liked to recover. In my previous research I have found mostly “use this expensive proprietary software” as a suggestion for data recovery, but seeing you list dd here: is it possible to learn your powers? I’m better about backups now but you never know!