Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> 3) # shred -vzn 65536 /dev/hda > > For future reference, man shred: > > NAME > shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it > > SYNOPSIS > shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...] > > DESCRIPTION > Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder > for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. And doing that to /dev/hda would destroy everything on the whole drive, not just one partition. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos