[PLUG] WipeInfo Equivalent

[tonyr]

You can also look at Eraser <http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/>. AFAIK, 
both sdelete and eraser are
windows utilities w/o Linux versions/equivalents. (meaning not
useful in Knoppix).

- tony

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William A Morita wrote:
> Rod,
>
> Go to www.Sysinternals.com and download "sdelete".  That will do the job for
> you.
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/fileanddiskutilities.mspx
> You can use it to zap all the unallocated blocks on the disk too.
>
> - Bill Morita 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Burt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:29 PM
> To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] WipeInfo Equivalent
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:02:34PM -0800, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
>   
>> Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Not sure if it is included on Knoppix but all my Redhatian based 
>>> systems have shred.
>>>       
>>> The man page mentions issue with several file systems but I don't 
>>> think it would be a problem for you.  That is if you're planning on 
>>> a complete wipe of the partition(s)?
>>>       
>> No. They still want XP running when I'm done. They just want to erase 
>> a lot of data.
>>     
>
> Five things:
> 1. That's a strange thing to ask for on a Linux/Unix Group list.
> 2. That said, you should be able to use a Linux bootcd and shred.
> 3. If you want a 'Doze-ish solution, google for secure delete windows.
> 4. That said, there'll be enough of the data lying around from older,
>    deleted versions of the files that you'd best just wipe with dd or
>    badblocks and reinstall.  Winders needs regular reinstalls anyway.
> 5. If you can't reinstall Winders because of license issues, might I
>    suggest some nice Linux desktops?
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