Re: Is erasing hard disk drive mandatory?

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On 30.05.2014, Thomas Bastiani wrote: 

> It may be that files that you create and then delete will trigger 
> a TRIM operation if dm-crypt (and
> eventually LVM) are configured to pass TRIM through. But the rest of
> your "securely erased" drive is still not TRIM-ed.

As far as I know, mkfs discards blocks while creating the filesystem.
So your device should be "overwritten" at that stage of the process?

(I for myself never do any overwriting of harddisks, I've just
asked out of sheer curiosity).

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