Beartooth wrote: >Here's a different angle on it: why not copy the stuff you want >to pass on to some temporary place -- like a DVD or an external hard >drive; then run DBAN; then do a fresh install of Fedora; then copy the >contents of the DVD or external drive back onto it? Yup - thanks for the suggestions - I guess it is a balance between how secure and how much time to spend.... but you are right - it would work that way. -- mike