Hi, On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 04:09:17AM -0700, defcon wrote: > Hey all, I have failed at wiping my freespace on my hard drive, what I > have done is: > [dd] if=/dev/urandom of=bigfile > and I also have tried sfill from the secure delete package from thc. > I have successfully recovered all deleted files after wiping the hard > drive with foremost, since this is a journaling filesystem is there > any way around this, is anyone experienced in this and have tried to > wipe/recover files on ext3? If you wiped so little data that the kernel cached it all and you removed bigfile before the cache could be flushed, perhaps the disk never got touched. Maybe try `sync' after running dd. -Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org
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