Sterilizing free space

[Sy Ali]

On 1/3/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/device might be good, but much slower
> obviously.

Thanks for the tip.. I didn't realise there was another source of data
to draw on.

If there is zero, is there some sort of "one" that exists somewhere?

Thanks for the alternate free space wiping method with dd.. I've made
some notes and I'll try it out if I get the chance.
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