Can I delete the whole partition without risking that any other data is touched? Can I just do shred /dev/hda1? I hope that doesn't damage /dev/hda2 Thanks for the help. Best regards Andreas > according to the man page, shred(1) can do it > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:59:12PM +0100, Andreas Schreier wrote: > > I have recovered some data from my deleted loop-AES > > encrypted root partition. I saved it on a partition that is > > not encrypted. I would like to delete these files. This > > time they shouldn't be recoverable. How can I do that? I > > guess just doing 'rm my_files' will not be enough. Is there > > a good way to overwrite the data so that it can't be > > recovered? (I have a backup this time ;-)) > > > > Best regards > > Andreas > > ______________________________________________________ > > Über 1 Mio. Angebote - Startpreis Euro 1,- http://www.fireball.de/ebay.html > > > > > > - > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ > > > ______________________________________________________ Über 1 Mio. Angebote - Startpreis Euro 1,- http://www.fireball.de/ebay.html
