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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:15:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc:        jhs@berklix.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, postmaster@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207191014310.7414@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <201207190253.q6J2r3p0070058@mail.r-bonomi.com>
References:  <201207190253.q6J2r3p0070058@mail.r-bonomi.com>

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>  1) There's a _reason_ the gov't requires hard drives with anthing higher
>     than 'somewhat' classified data on them to be =physically= destroyed
>     before leving the secure area.

no. for modern hard drives it was already proved that

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1m

is enough to make data unreadable.

for very old drives it may not



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