On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 20:21 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > So if you want to be on a safe side, fill up the whole disk from /dev/random > over and over 20 times, and the original data will be completely gone. Even > for NSA & friends. :-) > > Best, :-) > Marko > > > Actually, the 'standard' safe side is 25 times. And besides /dev/random, you have 'shred' command, which can do the same: from shred man: Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. -- Calin Key fingerprint = 37B8 0DA5 9B2A 8554 FB2B 4145 5DC1 15DD A3EF E857 ================================================= You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it will pass. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
