[ale] Re: erasing ext3 filesystems securely

[Geoffrey]

Randal Jarrett (K4RSJ) wrote:
> 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.

But the poster before that said one way to wreck the drive was to 
install windows on it.  I'm sure he did not mean to install Windows on 
the existing partition.

> 
> 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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Until later, Geoffrey