Re: [PLUG] OT: NTFS cleaning

["Greg Lopp" <lopp@pobox.com>]

Um, I'm not interested (yet) in rendering the laptop inert.  I'm looking for options to clean the "empty space" on the drive.

On 4/21/07, Jonathan Bringhurst <fintler@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd say boot with a knoppix live cd and run something like the following:

shred -vfz -n 10 /dev/hda

That'll overwrite the hard disk 10 times with 0s. Increase the n count
proportional to your level of paranoia :)

-Jon

On 4/21/07, Greg Lopp <lopp@pobox.com> wrote:
> A friend believes that her corporate masters will be letting her go soon.
> They will soon after want her corporate laptop back.  Not that she has
> anything to hide, but she'd like to scrub the NTFS partition to make
> undelete/forensics difficult.  I have a couple of ubuntu boxes that could
> employ a usb enclosure for this....
>
> Any thoughts, pointers?
>
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