From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 11:48:39 2002 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 3613B37B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from krag.kragware.com (net-216-37-76-12.in-addr.worldspice.net [216.37.76.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9995043E65 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: by krag.kragware.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3E4D079C6; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:53:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by krag.kragware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F6893CBA; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:53:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:53:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis X-X-Sender: alex@mail.kragware.com To: Robin Carey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two questions :) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020819135041.O97847-100000@mail.kragware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message