On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:25:02PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:25:25AM -0800, Jon wrote: > > hi > > > > I see a lot of programs that are available to clean up the disks for > > Windows OS. Not wipe a disk but clean up deleted files so they cannot be > > recovered. > > Is there any program for OpenBSD that will clean up the disks so that > > deleted files cannot be recovered. > > > > (not looking to delete a file securly - but to wipe the disk clean of > > deleted file with out affecting the OS) > > > > -jon > > Grind them up. There is nothing else you can do to "permanently" wipe > disks. Residual magnetism is always there provided good enough > equipment. If your data is that sensitive there is nothing else but the > grinder. >
put a wood furnace in you garage, get a good hardwood fire going, pop the disk in there, and stoak it again in 2 hours. there you go. cel -- Christopher Linn <celinn at mtu.edu> | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.