On 07/02/14 17:25, Can Jeuleers wrote: > On 02/07/2014 05:11 PM, David Brown wrote: >> The only thing you can't erase are re-mapped sectors - but hopefully >> those will be rare! > > I wonder if using the Secure Erase feature destroys all sectors > (including remapped-ones) or not. > I think secure erase can be done in different ways. On disks that have full-disk encryption, it simply erases (or changes) the password. For other drives, it has to write through all sectors on the disk - I would expect re-mapped sectors are included, but I don't know the details. > Also, what level of trust do people on this list have that the disk's > Secure Erase feature does what it says on the tin? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
