Dear Poul-Henning,
> >> On a modern disk there is no sequence of writes that will guarantee
> >> you that your data is iretriveable lost.
> >> Even if you rewrite a thousand times, you cannot guard yourself against
> >> the sector being replaced by a bad block spare after the first write.
> >
> >
Dear Poul-Henning,
Thank you very much for your comments!
> >From what I can see so far, they are simply overwritten with zeros - is
> >that
> >right? If so, the blackening feature would be much weakend, as one can read
> >up to 20 layers of data even under random data (and more under zeros).
Dear LenZ,
> Who are you worried about recovering the data, under what circumstances?
The value of the blackening feature should be that you can give away the drive
and your password, say, under pressure by the [court|mafia|whoever], without
compromising any confidential information on the dri
> me how the keys are being destroyed on request under the "blackening
> >> feature".
> >> Ideally, I'd like them to be overwritten with random data at least 20
> >> times
> >> independently, but I suspect it may well be done in a different way.
a different way. I'd be
> grateful for learning how the blackening works (and why!).
>
> With many thanks for your help in advance,
>
> David Kreil.
>
Dr David Philip Kreil ("`
ll be done in a different way. I'd be
grateful for learning how the blackening works (and why!).
With many thanks for your help in advance,
David Kreil.
Dr David Philip Kreil ("`-''
Dear Brandon D Valentine,
Thank you for your helpful comments.
> You may have to touch/chown/chmod a few files here and there to make
> sure the appropriate users have permissions to write to/from them. See
> /usr/src/etc/Makefile for some more information on that.
>
> Unfortunately I don't th
Dear Brooks,
Thank you very much for your fast and helpful reply.
# populate /var
/usr/sbin/mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
# add sendmail bits
/usr/sbin/mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist -p /
# create new syslog files
/usr/sbin/newsyslog -CC
# add a lastlog file
/usr/bin/
Hello,
I am writing in the hope that someone can give me a hint of how to either
recover or recreate a virgin FreeBSD /var partition in an otherwise
(apparently) functioning system.
Probably in the process of a drive failure in our hardware raid our /var
volume got corrupted (yeah, I know thi
Dear Jan,
Thank you very much for your comments!
> > I wonder, in particular, how "system" directories like /var would be
> > kept on a gdbe partition.
>
> Much like any other, but the major issue is that, unlike /tmp/ and swap
> (which can be wiped clean when a machine boots with no ill effe
Dear cpghost,
Thanks for your fast and helpful comment.
The Handbook describes a basic gdbe setup but mentions that getting other
volumes (like /home) onto a gdbe partition was trickier.
Can you tell me which volumes you have on gdbe and what was required to get
this working?
I wonder, in part
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:22:53 +0100
From: David Kreil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
(1) I was wondering whether anyone knew of packages/tools to aid in
"sanitizing"
a FreeBSD system, i.e., wiping
+ the swap slice
+ non-allocated space on volumes
+ "file-t
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