Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 01:45 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:01, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > You might want to do a dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/borrowed-disk if you don't
> > want the owner knowing what was on the borrowed disk and intend to return it.
>
> I'd think that if=/dev/zero might be just a tad faster, but I suppose
> that the action will be I/O bound by the disc anyway. If one is really
> worried, though, a simple overwrite is not enough. Partial or even
> complete data recovery might be possible. I'm not an expert on
> data destruction.
# wajig install wipe
# umount /dev/sda1
# wipe -i /dev/sda1
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
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