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.
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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
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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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