SCSI (and SAS) drives also have a similar feature, although it may not be
as easily accessible, and is not guaranteed to be implemented, though I'd
wager that most modern drives do.
For [SP]ATA drives there are actually two secure erase modes. In addition,
there also exist HPA and DCO features whi
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Dan Egli wrote:
> Hey, someone was asking me if there was a secure erase program for Linux
> (something like Norton's WipeInfo, for example). I've heard of wiping files
> by writing some random info out of /dev/random onto the file, but I've
> never heard of a spe
> From: Michael Torrie
> On 05/14/2013 01:44 AM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
>> There are real reasons why this might not *actually* work. Be aware of
>> caches, buffers, journals, snapshots, flushes, and RAIDs, oh my!
> And on copy-on-write filesystems such as BtrFS and ZFS, I imagine it's
> not po
On 05/12/2013 01:11 PM, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
> I would still use an APC in a data center environment--mounted in metal
> racks above fire-proof floors I wouldn't worry about them venting gas or
> getting hot when they fail. But not in my home on my wood floor or in my
> carpeted office.
>
I don't
On May 13, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 21:36 -0500, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
>> Just a thought, but aren't odd numbered kernel minor numbers supposed to be
>> unstable and even numbered minors supposed to be stable? I think I
>> remember reading that somewhere.
>
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On 05/14/2013 01:44 AM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> There are real reasons why this might not *actually* work. Be aware of
> caches, buffers, journals, snapshots, flushes, and RAIDs, oh my!
And on copy-on-write filesystems such as BtrFS and ZFS, I imagine it's
not possible to overwrite an existing
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Dan Egli wrote:
> Hey, someone was asking me if there was a secure erase program for Linux
"""
NAME
shred - delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its contents
SYNOPSIS
shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]
DESCRIPTION
Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repea
Hey, someone was asking me if there was a secure erase program for Linux
(something like Norton's WipeInfo, for example). I've heard of wiping files
by writing some random info out of /dev/random onto the file, but I've
never heard of a specific program that would do that for Linux. Does anyone
her
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