OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jun 2 22:10:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 01:58 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> The README claims that security erase is better than smashing the
> drive to bits, though (I suspect) not better then pulling out the
> platters and blowtorching them till the oxide falls off.

Though not as fun...

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