speeding up hard drive wipe

[Grizzly]

26 September 2020  at 15:19, Colin Law wrote:
Re: speeding up hard drive wipe (at least in part)

>On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 at 14:13, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> so even after a good wipe it can happen (at
>> least on windows)
>
>If after wiping there was anything recognisable as text then this is
>some strange use of the term wipe that I have not come across before.

Yeh I agree, it caught me out, I had until them had total (well almost) faith 
that my free space wipe was secure (short on the eyes of NSA types) or maybe 
the the tools I used to recover lost (shoot in foot) files had not found 
anything, then I tried a tool I have had a long time but never really used, 
because I "thought" it only did one job (recover lost pictures from camara mem 
cards) then I found it could do much more, I van only assumeit can access parts 
of disk that other app can't reach (it does whole disk or partition)

The fact that recent files hardly ever show up but ancient ones do, must mean 
something