On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:35 -0600
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I
Have a look at security/wipe.
Before reading this, yes I did. In fact, I even installed it.
However, the first operation appears to be a renaming of the
2008/6/23 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure about flash memory, but for a harddrive, simple writing 0's
is not a secure way to delete data. It can still be recovered.
Actually, this is for an experiment that
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:35 -0600
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I
Have a look at security/wipe.
Before reading this, yes I did. In fact, I even
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:40 PM
To: Steve Bertrand
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Andrew Falanga
Subject: Re: Wipe a drive clean
I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe
Andrew Falanga wrote:
Hi,
I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in
the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this
question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a
USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:57:47PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote:
Hi,
I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in
the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this
question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a
USB thumb drive?
In response to Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Note that wiping flash drives way will
shorten the lifespan of the device.
This statement is largely obsolete. Modern flash has rewrite cycles
that often exceed traditional platter-based disks.
--
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure about flash memory, but for a harddrive, simple writing 0's
is not a secure way to delete data. It can still be recovered.
Actually, this is for an experiment that I want to start with a
clean device for. I'm
I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in
the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this
question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a
USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I
was thinking that
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in
the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this
question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a
USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it.
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