[Techtalk] clean the swap partition

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:44:54PM -0600, Alvin Goats wrote:
> Writes 0's, 1's, FF's and random numbers that are written in all disk
> interlace formats so that all space is destroyed, followed by more 0's,
> 1's, etc for a total of 38 passes. This is followed by attacking the
> inodes. Nothing really recoverable after that.
> Works on most all filesystems and says which filesystems are not so good
> (I believe Novel's was one). 

Unfortunately though, as I understand it, these things don't work so well on
journaling filesystems, so anything modern is basically out. However, for
the original purpose of wiping an entire partition, they should be great.

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