Problems with dual boot and grub

Christopher K. Johnson ckjohnson at gwi.net
Wed Mar 24 00:18:19 UTC 2004


Marc Schwartz wrote:

> I have various procedures here that I utilize before sending any
>
>magnetic media anywhere. While nothing short of melting down the hard
>disk platters would provide near absolute erasure, I am comfortable in
>the notion that I take reasonable and appropriate measures to properly
>handle PHI (protected health information).
>  
>
If you want to wipe out individual files, or individual partitions 
securely, take a gander at 'man shred'.  Shred is installed in a default 
FC1 install by the coreutils package.  Note that the --remove option is 
necessary to delete a file afterwards.

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