Osamu Aoki put forth on 3/6/2010 3:07 AM: > As I understand, if you have sensitive data on harddisk, just doing mkfs only > is not enough to erase them all. It overwrites very small portion of them. > It > certainly makes almost impossible to read them by most of us with limited > time. Doing dd is one step more safe. ...
The OP wants to do this on his / filesystem not his data filesystems. It seems to me he's wanting to zero out a filesystem containing mostly programs. Which is pointless. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b92d01b.4040...@hardwarefreak.com
