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How to securely wipe your ReadyNAS
Hi there, Since I saw a lot of people here on the forum asking the same question; how can I securely erase, delete, wipe my hard disk before selling, RMA etc and all the suggestions led to one gene...
xyxoxy wrote: OK I see... yes this is the step I'm trying to avoid if possible.
So I guess that means srm does not take care of the free space but just the actual files it deletes?
From the srm man page:
Some of your data might have a temporary (deleted) copy
somewhere on the disk. You should use sfill which comes with the
secure_deletion package to ensure to wipe also the free
diskspace. However, If already a small file aquired a block with
your precious data, no tool known to me can help you here. For a
secure deletion of the swap space sswap is available.
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