The easiest way is to use the shred command. It will write out the file a specified number of times with random data, and optionally at the end remove the file. Peter On 06/08/07, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Aug 5, 2007, at 1:39 PM, "n800 at massone.name" <n800 at massone.name> > > wrote: > >> I would like to know if somebody knows about an application to > >> permanently delete files for Nokia N800. > > Because flash wears out (eventually), getting things physically > overwritten can take a lot of time, or it might never happen because > JFFS2 does wear-leveling and just garbage collects overwritten blocks > and writes the new content elsewhere. > > > ext Jonathan Greene wrote: > > How about reflashing the device... Should make it quite fresh -- like > > out of the box. > > I think that's the best way. > > > - Eero > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
