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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Wiping a disk clean
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:03:56 +0200
Date: 2005-08-04T08:03:56+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slxq2q7n.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a6THe.574$Uz1.2349@eagle.america.net

* Larry Hazel:

> Will the unused portion of the disk be wiped clean so that no one could 
> recover what was written there before?

No, some file system allocation units are probably only partly used
and its unused parts are not overwritten by this procedure.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-04  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-02 23:11 Wiping a disk clean Larry Hazel
2005-08-03  3:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-08-03  4:30   ` Larry Kilgallen
     [not found] ` <hck0f15qufvpr720etmjiu1on68n3o5968@4ax.com>
2005-08-03  7:09   ` Keith Thompson
2005-08-03 13:02     ` Marc A. Criley
2005-08-04 11:33       ` Bobby D. Bryant
     [not found]     ` <opo1f15gk1adu8eb9o43n3sdpkit7uajji@4ax.com>
2005-08-03 22:45       ` Keith Thompson
     [not found]         ` <v5c3f1h43qrqekr6abs00jn45nn5ncboa0@4ax.com>
2005-08-04 13:01           ` Marc A. Criley
2005-08-03  7:55   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-08-03 10:07     ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-03 22:46     ` Keith Thompson
2005-08-04  6:03 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2005-08-04 11:32 ` Bobby D. Bryant
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