From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 14:52:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDEF16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:52:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.fr (smtp1.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1D543D49 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:52:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0107.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 03337A0001AD for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:52:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0107.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id DE223A0001A1 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:52:29 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050120145229909.DE223A0001A1@mwinf0107.wanadoo.fr Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:52:29 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <503540176.20050120155229@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050120145658.E2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <200501200929.j0K9TXbl022106@mp.cs.niu.edu> <41EF92A2.30506@incubus.de> <20050120130838.K768@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <41EFB860.1030606@locolomo.org> <20050120145658.E2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:52:31 -0000 Colin J. Raven writes: CJR> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased CJR> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. Information can be recovered from disks even after a dozen or more overwrites. The data is never safe with the platters intact. -- Anthony