9 Jan
2013
9 Jan
'13
5:48 a.m.
Ken godee wrote:
Thanks. Is it possible that shred exit abnormally in any case (for example, some files that it relies on have been shreded)?
Without physical access to the machine so you can see (and control) what is actually going on, there is no way to 100% guarantee that the data is completely destroyed.
If you had some disk space could you create a partition and install a minimalistic Linux version, set your system to boot the minimalistic Linux version, log in and completely destroy any partition you want and you could just leave the minimalistic Linux version.
Dumb question: why can't you have whoever has the drive pull it and ship it to you?
mark