On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:11:36 -0700
"Richard Steffens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for all the advice.
>
> Turns out, my friend wanted to keep the OS intact (WinME). I have a
> copy of Norton System Works 2000. So, I ran WIPEINFO to write 0's to
> all the free space, after deleting all the data files and emptying the
> trash. She was happy with that.
>
Assuming you can mount the partition read/write. then this is a simple
bash script to zero the free space on a hard drive.
#!/bin/sh
ARRAY=(`df | awk '/^\//{ if ( $6 ) { print $1 ; print $3 ; print $6 }
else { print $1 ; getline ; print $3 ; print $5 } }'`)
let x=0
while [ $x -lt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ; do
let y=$x+1
let z=$x+2
if [ "${ARRAY[$z]}" = "/" ] ; then
ARRAY[$z]=""
fi
SIZE=${ARRAY[$y]}
PARTITION=${ARRAY[$z]}
echo "Working on ${ARRAY[$x]}"
eval dd if=/dev/zero of=${PARTITION}/0bits bs=$SIZE
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
rm ${ARRAY[$z]}/0bits
let x=$x+3
else
echo opps
exit 1
fi
done
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