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> I don't need CIA level deletion here, but I would like to be reasonably 
> certain that noone could restore my data after the drive is returned.
> 
> Is there a utility out there that can handle ext3 deletion?

I would expect that running dd against the drive a couple of times 
writing strings of nulls would be sufficient.  "dd don't care about no 
stinkin' filesystems." :)

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/??? count=$BLOCKSIZEOFDRIVE bs=$BIGNUMBER

As you noted, you're not worried about the CIA.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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