shredding files on a flash drive

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, 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.

yes, i realized that shortly after i posted -- i've been buried in an
embedded linux project lately and just got some neurons crossed.

rday
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