Tim:
There have been cases of people getting refurbished drives which did
have the previous owners data on them.
Ed Greshko:
Do you have first hand knowledge of this or is this something you've
just heard about?
I read about it on the internet, so it must be true... ;-) But
seriously, I
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 11/17/14 12:58, Tim wrote:
There have been cases of people getting refurbished drives which did
have the previous owners data on them.
Do you have first hand knowledge of this or is this something you've just heard
about?
The reason I ask this is I
On 11/16/2014 09:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com
mailto:jd1...@gmail.com wrote:
Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best
way to clean the unallocated blocks?
If this is really important to you, just eat the cost of
On 11/16/2014 09:58 PM, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2014-11-16 at 22:17 -0600, g wrote:
hard disk drive manufactures _are_not_ NSA. you _are_not_ NSA.
they do not connect hdd's to computers and try to read drives to
see what is on them. to do so is a waist of their time.
There have been cases of
Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best way to
clean the unallocated blocks?
The rest of the files on disk are OK - standard installation, ... etc.
All home dirs are deleted, tmp dirs, logs etc all deleted.
If you can think of other things to delete, pls let the world
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:04:31 -0700
jd1008 wrote:
Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best way to
clean the unallocated blocks?
A way is to run as root cp /dev/zero tempfile for one tempfile per partition
until the cp fails due to running out of disk space. That will
On 11/16/2014 12:09 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:04:31 -0700
jd1008 wrote:
Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best way to
clean the unallocated blocks?
A way is to run as root cp /dev/zero tempfile for one tempfile per partition
until the cp fails due
Depending on who makes the drive, the manufacturer's diag tool will
generally have something that will secure erase all of the drive
assuming the drive is still working enough.
I know last time I used the seagate diag tool it on the menu.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:17 PM, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:04:31PM -0700, jd1008 wrote:
Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best way to
clean the unallocated blocks?
The rest of the files on disk are OK - standard installation, ... etc.
All home dirs are deleted, tmp dirs, logs etc all deleted.
On 11/16/2014 01:03 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
there's also a utility that is designed to securely wipe the drive.
ufortunately I'm having a senior moment and can't think of its name.
The utility you're thinking of is shred.
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On 16.11.2014, Tom Horsley wrote:
A way is to run as root cp /dev/zero tempfile for one tempfile per
partition
until the cp fails due to running out of disk space. That will allocate all
free space and write zeroes to it.
Yes. Or dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1M, which is the same. Delete
The Fedora 20 repo includes a utility called 'scrub' and it has a mode to
scrub free space.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com wrote:
Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best way to
clean the unallocated blocks?
The rest of the files on disk are
On 11/16/2014 03:01 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
The Fedora 20 repo includes a utility called 'scrub' and it has a mode
to scrub free space.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com
mailto:jd1...@gmail.com wrote:
Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best
On 11/16/2014 02:10 PM, jd1008 wrote:
Thanx Ted.
I had forgotten all about scrub.
Now if only someone would tell me how to locate the journal blocks.
If I mount the drive with the journaling disabled, will the blocks usually
used for journaling become free blocks, and thus be covered by
On 11/16/2014 04:10 PM, jd1008 wrote:
On 11/16/2014 03:01 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
The Fedora 20 repo includes a utility called 'scrub' and it has
a mode to scrub free space.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com
mailto:jd1...@gmail.com wrote:
Before sending the drive for
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com
mailto:jd1...@gmail.com wrote:
Before sending the drive for warranty service, what is the best
way to clean the unallocated blocks?
If this is really important to you, just eat the cost of the drive and
destroy it instead of sending it
On Sun, 2014-11-16 at 22:17 -0600, g wrote:
hard disk drive manufactures _are_not_ NSA. you _are_not_ NSA.
they do not connect hdd's to computers and try to read drives to
see what is on them. to do so is a waist of their time.
There have been cases of people getting refurbished drives
On 11/17/14 12:58, Tim wrote:
There have been cases of people getting refurbished drives which did
have the previous owners data on them.
Do you have first hand knowledge of this or is this something you've just heard
about?
The reason I ask this is I have a friend that worked at WD in the HD
the unallocated disk space
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On 11/17/14 12:58, Tim wrote:
There have been cases of people getting refurbished drives which did
have the previous owners data on them.
Do you have first hand knowledge
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