On Friday 25 March 2005 15:39, Sandy Drobic wrote:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/filename_on_partition

Is that the command you were looking for?

Sandy Thank you Sandy, that be she!

Peace john

On Saturday 26 March 2005 10:27 am, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:19:21 -0600, John N. Alegre wrote:

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On Friday 25 March 2005 15:39, Sandy Drobic wrote:

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/filename_on_partition

Is that the command you were looking for?

Sandy

Thank you Sandy, that be she!

A stronger form of the above is scrub. http://www.llnl.gov/linux/scrub/scrub.html

But both of the above only clear files. I don't know of a linux tool to wipe deleted space and/or slack space. Those types of tools do exist for Windows.

I wonder if a program like wipe might be helpful for that task? :) There are 2 programs called wipe that run on Linux, one is included with SuSE. I'm using the one from http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ (I'm not sure which is in any given version of SuSE). To securely wipe the free space with the wipe at sourceforge, presuming the partition in question is mounted at /mnt/wipeme: wipe -T -o > /mnt/wipeme/filethatdoesn'texistyet rm /mnt/wipeme/filethatdoesn'texistyet --Danny, with "wipe -DNi /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/disc" running in the background right now