[ale] Re: erasing ext3 filesystems securely

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> On Tuesday June 07 2005 15:06, Marty Ernst wrote:
> 
>>NOt to be funny, but one quick way to wreck a drive is to put Windoze on
>>it. That will wreck any file system.
>>
>>ME
> 
> 
> Apparently you've never tried to install Windows on an ext3 partition.


I assume he means an install that would reformat the drive. 
Reformatting the drive to ntfs or fat and then installing windows does 
not guarantee you've deleted all the data on the drive.  You really have 
to fill the whole drive, not just install something new.

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Until later, Geoffrey