Sterilizing free space

[Joseph Kubik]

So, if you are using ext3, just remount in ext2 mode and then continue
and all will be gone.

If you are using Reiser you might want to cross post to one of the
SUSE mailing lists.
-Joseph-

On 12/28/05, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 04:54:22PM -0500, Sy Ali wrote:
> >I can nicely sterilize a complete drive with shred -n 2 -z -v
> >/dev/<device> however I don't know how to do a partition or just the
> >slack space on a drive.
>
> Why not fill the drive with a single file and then securely erase it?
>
> cat /dev/zero > /home/user/tmp/zerofile
> wait for drive to fill
> bcwipe /home/user/tmp/zerofile
>
> Keep in mind that there is debate as to whether or not you can ever
> securely erase information from a journaled file system.
>
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