How do I wipe Linux Mint clean?

There are various excellent ways to securely wipe a drive including bootable CD/DVD or USB sticks of “MiniTool Partition Wizard (PW)“, “Darik’s Boot And Nuke tool”, “Ultimate Boot CD”, etc… or booting to the Live Installation version of Linux Mint and using the Wipe, or Shred, or Scrub, “DD”, or “hdparm”, or some …

How do I completely wipe Linux?

Most variants of Linux come with two tools for securely wiping a drive: the dd command and the shred tool. You could use dd or shred to wipe the drive, then create partitions and format it with a disk utility. To wipe a drive using the dd command, it’s important to know the drive letter and partition number.