1) backup your data to external usb drive 2) reinstall with encrypted enabled
3) restore data = a lot of unencrypted data get's overwritten (if user does not have a lot of data, generate some X-D) On 6/27/20 6:00 AM, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-06-26 18:25, David Wright wrote: > >> There's still the problem of what one does about sensitive data if >> one has been rash enough to write it unencrypted onto an SSD. Would >> shred -n 1 be preferable? Not really, because that doesn't hit the >> ex-file areas. What then? > > The best option is to command the SSD firmware to do a "secure > delete". Some SSD manufacturers provide utilities for doing this. > Alternatively, it can be done from the command line with Linux. > > > David
