On Wed, 9 May 2001, David E. Smith wrote:
>Not that I know of, but that's the beauty of (most things) Linux. mke2fs
>is part of the e2fsprogs package; adding a wipe-disk feature wouldn't be
>unreasonably complicated. Doing a half-dozen overwrites will slow things
>down by a healthy margin, but it could be done with relative ease.
It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to start with a normal wipe and run the
multiple passes stuff in the background. Perhaps continuously, if you're
paranoid enough.
Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front
