still in the shred's man page, it is said that shred is commonly used on device so i guess you can do it On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 11:38:10AM -0500, Andreas Schreier wrote: > 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 > > - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
