Scrub free disk blocks

[kalinix]

On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 20:21 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:

> So if you want to be on a safe side, fill up the whole disk from /dev/random 
> over and over 20 times, and the original data will be completely gone. Even 
> for NSA & friends. :-)
> 
> Best, :-)
> Marko
> 
> 
> 

Actually, the 'standard' safe side is 25 times. And besides /dev/random,
you have 'shred' command, which can do the same:


from shred man:


Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder
for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.



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