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

  • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If you use shred instead of rm to delete a file, the contents should be unrecoverable for all practical intents and purposes.

    I don’t believe shred can work recursively on a directory structure, like rm, so you’ll have to cobble something together with the find command I guess.