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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:52:29 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU
Message-ID:  <503540176.20050120155229@wanadoo.fr>
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>

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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




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