How about put the HDD back in the laptop, download and burn dban (
http://www.dban.org/download) to a CD and boot the laptop to the CD?
Regards,
Ron Young
919-621-9015
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung
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Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny steps.
Great big dreams require great big thoughts and little tiny steps.
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*Kosh*: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to
vote.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g
>
> I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for
> repair replacement. I wish to remove certain files before
> sending the laptop back with the HDD.
>
> I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs
> filesystem using an external SATA / USB adapter. As root
> I then used the gnome desktop to move the desired files to
> trash. Now I wish to delete the contents of the trash
> folder and the folder itself. This I cannot do. I have
> tried deleting using rm -rf ./.Trash-root but the command
> simply has no effect. It raises no error and it does not
> remove the Directory or its contents.
>
> For convenience I renamed the directory to DeleteME using
> move, which worked. As expected through, all attempts to
> remove DeleteME still fail silently. The permission bits
> are set thus:
>
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 488 Oct 21 10:54 DeleteMe
>
> I have tried chmod -R 777 DeleteMe but this has no effect
> on the permissions.
>
> How do I get rid of this thing?
>
> I realize that after the trash directory is removed I will
> still have to over-write the unused space on the drive to
> scramble the contents but I cannot get to that stage until
> I free the space.
>
>
>
>
>
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