Re: Re[1]: Deleting/overwriting data

[Jerome Etienne <jme@off.net>]

still in the shred's man page, it is said that shred is commonly used on
device so i guess you can do it

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 11:38:10AM -0500, Andreas Schreier wrote:
> Can I delete the whole partition without risking that any 
> other data is touched? Can I just do shred /dev/hda1? I 
> hope that doesn't damage /dev/hda2
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Best regards
> Andreas
>  
> > according to the man page, shred(1) can do it
> > 
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:59:12PM +0100, Andreas 
> Schreier wrote:
> > > I have recovered some data from my deleted loop-AES 
> > > encrypted root partition. I saved it on a partition 
> that is 
> > > not encrypted. I would like to delete these files. This 
> > > time they shouldn't be recoverable. How can I do that? 
> I 
> > > guess just doing 'rm my_files' will not be enough. Is 
> there 
> > > a good way to overwrite the data so that it can't be 
> > > recovered? (I have a backup this time ;-))
> > > 
> > > Best regards
> > > Andreas
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