[ale] really really deleting files....

[Geoffrey]

Keith R. Watson wrote:

> However if you mean no one, not even a three letter government agency 
> can recover the data, then it is not possible to erase data so that it 
> is totally safe from recovery. (I'm sure that will start a flame war) 
> The real issue is how do you define the terms erase and recoverable:

Okay, I've checked out the various docs, briefly.  I don't really have 
the time to digest them fully at this, time, but would ask your patient. 
  In my feeble mind, it seems to me that if you remove a file, then fill 
that file system completely up with garbage, the removed file is not 
retrievable.  Might you suggest the flaw in my process?

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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