From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 03:09:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8C116A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 03:09:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071D043D1D for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 03:09:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:09:07 -0600 Message-ID: <4217FF4F.4000605@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:09:03 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Nagle References: <42177131.2090108@tampabay.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <42177131.2090108@tampabay.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2005 03:09:08.0032 (UTC) FILETIME=[8ABE4400:01C516F9] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commands "Delete / Shred" X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 03:09:06 -0000 Richard Nagle wrote: > Want to shred or clean the free space on a hard drive. > is there a command string for this? or app ? > > Thanks - > Richard > A recent thread on questions@ delved into this (rather as an aside). The conclusion *might have been* that if you were the CIA/NSA etc., "shredding" should be literal. One guy even offered to throw your disks into a volcano in Hawaii for a reasonable charge. IIRC, there were some more "common" responses to this, several of which would at least clue you in, I should think. Personally, "rm" works for me .... Kevin Kinsey