[TriLUG] question about data security with vmdks

William Chandler wcchandler at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 09:57:17 EDT 2011


You need to overwrite the previous data.  Simple re-formatting will not do
this.  Most data will still be accessible by using various tools -- PhotoRec
comes to mind.

As somebody else suggested, DBan will do fairly well.  An alternative is to
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever.  It should take a long time.



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