shredding files on a flash drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:45:58PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> if you're going to start messing around with flash, you might want to
> install the "mtd-utils" package on your system.  if you've never
> worked with flash filesystems, prepare to re-learn how to do basic
> operations, like clearing the raw filesystem.  you'll be working with
> commands like flash_erase and flash_eraseall.

mtd only applies to raw flash devices.  Anything with an interface (IDE,
CF, SD, etc) don't let you at that low a level and manager all that
stuff in the interface automatically.

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Len Sorensen
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