From: Larry Hazel <lhhazel@otelco.net>
Subject: Wiping a disk clean
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:11:29 -0500
Date: 2005-08-02T18:11:29-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6THe.574$Uz1.2349@eagle.america.net> (raw)
If I create a binary file, use sequential_io to write records of all
ones until Use_Error is raised. Then, delete the file and repeat with
all zeros.
Will the unused portion of the disk be wiped clean so that no one could
recover what was written there before?
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2005-08-02 23:11 Larry Hazel [this message]
2005-08-03 3:28 ` Wiping a disk clean 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
2005-08-04 11:32 ` Bobby D. Bryant
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