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Old 04-17-06, 12:12 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by greytrev
really? seven overwrites is all it takes? i guess it'll pass then. it can be configured to run from 3 (the default) up t0 10 passes on the file. each pass overwrites the file with 1's, 0's, or random data, then the file is truncated to a zero byte file and deleted.

seemed to be a common question, and i couldn't find any file shredders for the ppc out there....which seemed odd to me. and the price is right :)
yup. just seven passes (altough just to be safe i write my clients data over 30 times then i fragment the drive then i format it to ext3 then to fat16 then i zero the drive and finally format it to NTFS.


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