[CentOS] Wiping USB drives

[centos at 911networks.com]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:42:40 -0500 (CDT)
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:


> As you did not mention the filesystem on your USB drives, I did
> not know whether or not shred would be effective for you.
> 
> It may or may not be reasonable to format the drives with vfat
> or ext2 and then run shred, which would add an additional layer
> of masking.

I should have 1st mentioned that 3 are Ext3, 1 a ReiserFS, the
rest are NTFS, there may be one FAT32.

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