When the date was Thursday 15 of July 2010, green wrote: > thib wrote at 2010-07-15 13:13 -0500: > > Take a look at shred (coreutils), wipe and secure-delete. > > +1 wipe; I have used it to wipe an entire block device. > Also wipe2fs for zeroing unused space; and zerofree seems very similar.
I am skeptical whether there is any good reason for tools like wipe2fs, zerofree and friends (if there are any...), when a dd && sync && rm have the same result. -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007151946.47484.m.iat...@freemail.gr