Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)
Osamu Aoki put forth on 3/6/2010 3:07 AM:
> As I understand, if you have sensitive data on harddisk, just doing mkfs only
> is not enough to erase them all. It overwrites very small portion of them. It
> certainly makes almost impossible to read them by most of us with limited
> time. Doing dd is one step more safe. ...
The OP wants to do this on his / filesystem not his data filesystems. It
seems to me he's wanting to zero out a filesystem containing mostly
programs. Which is pointless.
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Stan
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