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If you don't get a response before then, bump this in about eight hours and I'll ask Fahim if he knows of anything.
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in response to a request for a disk scrubber by me.
I used the dban one and it worked fine, if slowly.
It allows you to make a boot floppy with a small Linux distro that wipes the disk. It worked very well, if slowly, for me.
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I've used knoppix before, but since my drives are NTFS, I wasn't able to modify the drives at all.
Will that be a problem? It doesn't have to be, because I guess it won't be using the NTFS, but wiping the entire drive, partitions and all.
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I personally would not use Linux tools on an NTFS partition but that's just me being paranoid about MS and their crazy Linux-hatred/paranoia However, I do have a question, do you want a scrubber to wipe your full hard disk or a day-to-day shredder which wipes all traces of files that you delete off your hard disk? I haven't had the need for a full disk scrubber but I could look around - there should be something good (and free) around Posts: 136 | Registered: Aug 2003
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I just read about shred, and it says that it works no matter what type of partition it is.
On a related note, I heard that it's possible to access NTFS partitions from linux if you have it use one of the windows DLLS. Does anybody know how to do this with knoppix?
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You should be able to mount NTFS partitions knoppix to at least read-only (its been a while). With doing anything but a mount.
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Both shred and dd, when used on an entire disk, should work fine on NTFS. They both operate below the level of the filesystem, so it doesn't matter what filesystem is in place. The dd command mentioned there just copies every single bit it finds on the disk onto a new disk, in the same order.
Knoppix can mount NTFS partitions read only easily (and currently does so pretty much automagically, iirc), and can mount NTFS read/write as well (though there is a theoretical possibility of errors, the effectiveness has improved greatly in the past year or so).
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However, I do have a question, do you want a scrubber to wipe your full hard disk or a day-to-day shredder which wipes all traces of files that you delete off your hard disk? I haven't had the need for a full disk scrubber but I could look around - there should be something good (and free) around ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
