On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 18:16:00 +0930, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 13:31 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > It makes no real difference - use the drives own secure erase feature if > > you want to be sure, otherwise you've got no guarantee that everything > > will be cleared - only the drive knows enough to do the job. > > But do you know what the drive does when you use that function? ;-\
Reading the drive back in should give you a good idea. If that isn't enough of a check for you then you should just be destroying the drive. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
