[ale] Re: erasing ext3 filesystems securely

[Geoffrey]

Randal Jarrett (K4RSJ) wrote:
> again, with the assumptions.  :-)

What??

> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 22:49 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday June 07 2005 15:06, Marty Ernst wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>NOt to be funny, but one quick way to wreck a drive is to put Windoze on
>>>>it. That will wreck any file system.
>>>>
>>>>ME
>>>
>>>
>>>Apparently you've never tried to install Windows on an ext3 partition.
>>
>>
>>I assume he means an install that would reformat the drive. 
>>Reformatting the drive to ntfs or fat and then installing windows does 
>>not guarantee you've deleted all the data on the drive.  You really have 
>>to fill the whole drive, not just install something new.
>>


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Until later, Geoffrey