[ale] Re: erasing ext3 filesystems securely

[Randal Jarrett K4RSJ]

What?? What???

You made the assumption, "I assume he means an install that would
reformat the drive", when what was said was "Apparently you've never
tried to install Windows on an ext3 partition" Which would not indicate 
reformatting the drive.

Just poking fun :-)

Randy

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:48 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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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