From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 13:08:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30011065675 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jakub_lach@mailplus.pl) Received: from sam.nabble.com (sam.nabble.com [216.139.236.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7526F8FC15 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:08:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SrqSr-00032l-Ml for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:08:21 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:08:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jakub Lach To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1342703301697-5728161.post@n5.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: References: <201207171151.q6HBpq8a039504@mail.r-bonomi.com> <201207181247.q6ICl2ev063084@mail.r-bonomi.com> <201207181558.q6IFwM7f033708@fire.js.berklix.net> <201207190253.q6J2r3p0070058@mail.r-bonomi.com> <1342697265790-5728126.post@n5.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:08:22 -0000 Follow up is even more interesting than epilogue, especially: "Another problem with the article is the fact that a magnetic force microscope, which is a scanning probe microscope, is nothing like an electron microscope, and yet the article repeatedly refers to using an electron microscope to try and recover data (the same mistake has also been pointed out by others). So saying "the chances of recovery of any amount of data from a drive using an electron microscope are negligible" is quite true, in the same way that saying "the chances of recovery of any amount of data from a drive using an optical microscope are negligible" is true" And DiskStroyer kit made me chuckle. If I comprehend it correctly, that doesn't make Gutmann method obsolete in principle, it only means that those passes were tailored at (various) old technology, and on modern drives could be bit overkill and just as good as random scrubs. That's still makes a robust procedure, even If overkill and dated (which isn't exactly bad thing). Thanks for replies. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/fsck-on-FAT32-filesystem-tp5727015p5728161.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.