Re: [tlug] Data rewrite technology

[Shawn <javajunkie@example.com>]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:11:37 +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon 
<ronfaxon@example.com> wrote:

>
>> You must be a paranoid or do some illegal stuff to need it, IMO :-)
>>
>>
> HaHa! Actually - I am primarily interested in hardware longevity, so if 
> the machine is doing that, I'd rather it didn't. BUT... if I were 
> working on a borrowed machine it would be nice to truly erase my files 
> when leaving the machine, so it's good to know how!
>
Just be mindful to watch the filesystem.   It isn't necessarily effective 
on IDE or SCSI or Flash or journaling (ext3 for instance) types, is it?


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