Allegedly, on or about 26 January 2019, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > Since magnetic domains have hysteresis, suitable equipment can > recover the previous state at a physical level. That's why proper > trashing takes several passes.
Some drives are supposed have a built in secure erase function. I wonder how effective it is. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. - And how would you describe Windows? - One man's trash is another man's treasure... _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
