Marc Schwartz wrote:
I have various procedures here that I utilize before sending any
magnetic media anywhere. While nothing short of melting down the hard
disk platters would provide near absolute erasure, I am comfortable in
the notion that I take reasonable and appropriate measures to properly
handle PHI (protected health information).
If you want to wipe out individual files, or individual partitions
securely, take a gander at 'man shred'. Shred is installed in a default
FC1 install by the coreutils package. Note that the --remove option is
necessary to delete a file afterwards.
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Chris Johnson, RHCE #807000448202021
