sanitizing disc

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:49 PM, garry <garry at gdconn.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:45 PM, claudiomet <claudiomet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> sudo deluser USER
>> sudo rm -rf /home/USER
>>
>
>
> Looks good, will give it a try.
>
>
> That command won't actually securely remove the content. Someone could go
> back and run a program like PhotoRec or TestDisk to recover much of the
> data.
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Is reinstalling over the old installation the only secure option?


garyk
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