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

Beartooth Beartooth at comcast.net
Sat May 30 17:15:28 UTC 2009


On Fri, 29 May 2009 16:57:09 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> I generally take the drives out to the desert and use /sbin/detonate.
>>> As Jamie Hyneman once said on "Mythbusters"...
>>>
>>>     When in doubt....C4!
>>>
>> Can I come with the next time you take one out? They will not let me
>> play with C4 any more. :(
> 
> Well, I'm not supposed to either, but "it's only illegal if you get
> caught!"

	I have it on excellent authority that a .45 acp won't make a hole 
clear through a hard drive, but that a .30-06 will.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.




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