Re: [Hampshire] Securely deleting files

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Author: Peter McGowan
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Securely deleting files
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 09:52, Roger Munford wrote:
> If I had a file whose contents I wanted to remove completely from the
> disk, would it be enough to open it and use Fwrite() to overwrite each
> character and then delete?

Try wipe

http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ (or supplied pre-packaged with many distros)

Peter


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