shredding files on a flash drive

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 18, 2008 2:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The file system has no clue and no say in how things are done under the
> hood by a flash based device.  Blocks get remapped all the time as part
> of wear leveling and hence spare blocks are rotated into use when other
> blocks are overwritten.

So are you saying that the secure overwrite will not happen?  Well,
then dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda sounds like a good option then :-)
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