[svlug] 2 part Linux question
David N. Welton
davidw at dedasys.com
Thu Jul 10 00:04:26 PDT 2003
Marc Maxwell <maxwellmarc at yahoo.com> writes:
> I am curious about a couple of things. I want to wipe data off of an
> IDE drive COMPLETELY, absolutely and totally gone forever and NOT
> recoverable. I have recently learned to my dismay that formats and
> even the utilities that write ones and zeroes to the drive, are
> really not completely erasing the data.
My friend Salvatore Sanfilippo wrote something along those lines:
http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/overwrite.html
'shred' is also shipped as one of the GNU tools
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