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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:53:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>
To:        Robin Carey <robin@constellation.wizardsworks.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Two questions :)
Message-ID:  <20020819135041.O97847-100000@mail.kragware.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208191044010.3511-100000@constellation.wizardsworks.org>

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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Robin Carey wrote:

> 1) Is there a tool for "properly" deleting files ? I am taking about
> over-writing or zeroing the hard-disk here, thereby ensuring nobody could
> analyse the hard-disk and retrieve a rm'd file. Surely such a tool should
> be a command line option to rm(1) or something...
>

Have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/obliterate. I believe that's about as
thorough as is practical.

-ac


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