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Re: [SLE] wipe, clean, etc
- From: Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:05:21 -0500
- Message-id: <0I8B002Z5PGSAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 08:39 AM 12/6/2004 -0700, Brad Bourn wrote:
>Isn't there a way to set all unused parts of the drive to 0's?
>
>B-)
>
>On Monday 06 December 2004 08:35 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
>> On Monday 06 December 2004 16:16, Brad Bourn wrote:
>> > Is there a simple command I can run to make sure that the data on the
>> > drive after I delete the source code dir is completely gone?
/snip/
I think you have it backwards; what you want to do is set all _used_
parts of the drive to something useless. The convention is to set
everything to the letter "e". Once I knew why, but I no longer do.
It is probably a succession of 1's and 0's.
--doug
>Isn't there a way to set all unused parts of the drive to 0's?
>
>B-)
>
>On Monday 06 December 2004 08:35 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
>> On Monday 06 December 2004 16:16, Brad Bourn wrote:
>> > Is there a simple command I can run to make sure that the data on the
>> > drive after I delete the source code dir is completely gone?
/snip/
I think you have it backwards; what you want to do is set all _used_
parts of the drive to something useless. The convention is to set
everything to the letter "e". Once I knew why, but I no longer do.
It is probably a succession of 1's and 0's.
--doug
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