[PLUG] No partition table for file erasure

[Wil Cooley]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 18:30 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    I'm ready to donate one of my redundant systems (as soon as Rob surfaces
> for air), but I wanted to ensure that no data was left on the hard drives.
> So I booted with Tom's Root Boot, ran fdisk on both, and deleted all
> partitions.
> 
>    Which makes me wonder: if the data on the drive was originally in ext3
> filesystems, and the partition table has been cleared, are data still
> recoverable with sophisticated tools and sufficient skill?

Yes.  At the very least, zero out the disk by running 'dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/hda'.  Or maybe use /dev/urandom for input instead of /dev/zero.
It's still recoverable by government-grade equipment, but I hope you
don't need that.  If you do, a very long extension cord and a thrift-
store microwave oven might be the way to go.

Wil
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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc
Naked Ape Consulting                        http://nakedape.cc

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