Questions tagged [secure-delete]
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How to securely delete a file's NAME from the filesystem?
I want to delete a file on a linux ext4 file system such that the disk does not contain the name of the file anywhere on the disk (free space, file system metadata, or anywhere else).
For example, I ...
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When will deleted data be permanently gone from Heroku postgres continuous backups?
According to Heroku Postgres Data Safety and Continuous Protection data is backed up continuously into Amazon S3 buckets.
If I delete a bunch of rows, for example, all confidential data from 1 ...
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HDD bricked after hdparm --sanitize-overwrite (SG_IO: bad/missing sense data)
On my HDD (WD RED Plus) I have performed SANITIZE using below command:
hdparm --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --sanitize-overwrite-passes 1 --sanitize-overwrite hex:11111111 /dev/sda
It was running fine,...
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Trying to erase disk content by filling all bits with "1", not "0"
I have 2 old 160GB WD drives that do not have "Security-Delete" option when querying with hdparm.
I understand the current acceptance of the mechanism overwriting entire disks with zeros.
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