From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1101264a9f24d62d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer.tds.net!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Larry Hazel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Wiping a disk clean Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:11:29 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.32.41 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1123024390 66.0.32.41 (Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:13:10 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:13:10 EDT Organization: 24hoursupport.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3915 Date: 2005-08-02T18:11:29-05:00 List-Id: 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?