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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.

-- 
Stan


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