Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

Hummm,,
I just read the docs for shred and it doesn't
garanttee that the data will be erased on a
journalling filesystem.
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?shred+1

Nevermind,
Ben

--- "Schleimer, Ben" <bensch128@×××××.com> wrote:

> I understand that writing zeros over the file should
> permenately delete the data but couldn't the data be
> cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with
> journalling filesystems??
>
>  Cheers,
>  Ben
>
>  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in
> the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as
> possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -
> Brian W. Kernighan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Sent: Tue 31 Jan 2006 02:56:25 PM IST
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from
> a formatted hard disk
>
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >I've heard of government departments filing down
> the old HD's into
> >little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the
> next building project.
> >Could be an urban legend though.
> >
> >All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :)
> >
> >
>
> I have heard the same thing.  I have watched some of
> them on TV get data
> off some unbelievable drives.  Some had bent
> platters, serious
> scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc,
> After all that,
> they still got enough of what they wanted.  They put
> a chemical on one
> and you could see the data with your eyes.  It
> looked like a round bar
> code sort of.
>
> Whatever you use, if it does it quickly, it ain't
> worth the time.
> Really erasing something and rewriting data over it
> takes a bit of
> time.  That little light should be on a while.  I
> still wouldn't count
> on it.  Shreading it and putting it in concrete may
> be a good idea.
> Maybe putting it in a MRI machine would help too.  I
> would leave the
> room though.  O_O
>
> Dale
> :-)
>
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>
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> 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
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> 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.  Named Swifty
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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan




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