shredding files on a flash drive

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

The simplest way, by far, is to simply encrypt the drive. It is very
easy to do that in Linux.


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