Re: suplusing a disk, how to 'clean' up? Overwriting data?
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:02:57 -0500 (EST), Walter Tautz
<wtautz@cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Please cc me on responses as I'm not on the list.
>
> Just wondering how one can accomplish cleaning
> up the disk? I.e. I want to overwrite
> the existing disk so that no information can
> be recovered. I've heard that dd has it's uses?
> Simply recreating file systems is not likely
> to be sufficient.
>
You can use "shred", is in coreutils.
Andrea
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