SHRED for EXT3?

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jul 27 19:53:55 UTC 2005


At 2:27 PM -0500 7/27/05, Mike McCarty wrote:
>Michael Yep wrote:
>> Ok, now that I understand the specifics of you situation, I would
>> recommend that you move your data to an external disk.
>> Then boot the computer with Knoppix or a rescue cd. shred -vx /dev/hda
>> (or what ever your disk is called )
>> Now this will blow away everything, OS, and partition table included,
>> but you can be pretty sure the data is gone.
>> Ezra Nugroho wrote:
 ...
>Erm, you cut the part where I said I don't want to lose my
>own data.

He said, "move your data to an external disk", so he did not miss that part.
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