Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:45:24 +0200 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Jakub Lach" <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl> Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? Message-ID: <op.whoyxyqxg7njmm@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <1342697265790-5728126.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <20120715234817.fcfb1489.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207160814480.4790@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <201207171151.q6HBpq8a039504@mail.r-bonomi.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207171902020.1625@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <201207181247.q6ICl2ev063084@mail.r-bonomi.com> <201207181558.q6IFwM7f033708@fire.js.berklix.net> <201207190253.q6J2r3p0070058@mail.r-bonomi.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207191014310.7414@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <BLU0-SMTP3158B6907CC27BEAF4F8C2C93D90@phx.gbl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207191259470.15515@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1342697265790-5728126.post@n5.nabble.com>
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Am 19.07.2012, 13:27 Uhr, schrieb Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl>: > This topic went totally off, but anyway there are interesting bits, > do you say that e.g. Gutmann method is totally unneeded? > You may be interested in the epilogue to Gutmann's paper: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html#Epilogue Quote: "For any modern PRML/EPRML drive, a few passes of random scrubbing is the best you can do. As the paper says, "A good scrubbing with random data will do about as well as can be expected". This was true in 1996, and is still true now." Nice picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MFM_AFM_JANUSZ_REBIS_INFOCENTRE_PL_HDD_MAGNETIC_MEMORY_EVOLUTION.png > -- > View this message in context: > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/fsck-on-FAT32-filesystem-tp5727015p5728126.html > Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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