From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 17 22:11:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 9492C14A1F; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:11:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837641CD44A; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:11:46 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: TrouBle Cc: Barrett Richardson , David G Andersen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure filesystem wiping In-Reply-To: <3833923C.10A7208F@netquick.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, TrouBle wrote: > obliterate only wipes the one file you specify.. i want to wipe all the > free space on the disk, without damaging good intact files on it, linux > has a progrtam called wipe that does this, now ill ask again is there > something similiar for freebsd dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/bigfile || rm -f /usr/bigfile Replace /dev/zero with /dev/urandom according to taste. Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message