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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Wiping a disk clean
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:03:56 +0200
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* 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.