thc-secure-delete ( anybody installed it ? )

[Lee Braiden]

On Friday 02 September 2005 21:34, R.L. Reingard wrote:
> regarding creating such a huge file (like 5GB): how would you do that, if
> you tell it can be simply done? if i could do so, i would know myself how
> to erase that huge file with WIPE.

This should do it:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=~/myhugefile bs=1M count=`expr 1024 \* 5`

And this will confirm it:

  ls -lSh ~/myhugefile

:)

Again, though; this may not be as reliable as you think it is.  There can 
still be deleted files UNDER the files that aren't deleted.  Best to wipe the 
disk, and start from scratch after wiping the disk itself.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20050902/b3d4d016/attachment.sig>