Re: apple mini
Jonathan Dowland composed on 2020-01-08 16:16 (UTC):
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:40:01AM +0100, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Seems all you really need to do is remove the content from the home directories,
>> e.g. rm -R
> This will cause the filesystem to mark the corresponding files as
> deleted so that they are not visible when accessing the filesystem
> conventionally. But it will not cause the content of the files
> themselves to be scrubbed from the underlying disk, and they could be
> potentially recovered by someone who wanted to.
If you're seriously concerned the next owner might try that, create a new file
full of junk from /dev/random or from /dev/null that fills the existing freespace,
then remove it.
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