Re: Deletion of files from usb-key
- From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:16:20 -0500
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:49:06AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:
To check whether I should feel guilty giving that advice, I've checked
my listed procedure with my own usb stick. It survived it without any
problem and with the expected results: overwriting /dev/sda (in my case
it's sda) and plugging the stick out and in again made the kernel tell
me about "unknown partition table", and udev only created a /dev/sda
device, no /dev/sda1 device; cfdisk let me create a new partition table,
/dev/sda1 appeared, being empty, and I could format and mount and use
it. (I can give you the logs of my procedure and kernel outputs if you
want.)
That could mean your hardware is just broken, or it's of a kind that
can't be dealt with in the 'usual' way.
Your method is also standard procedure here on my USB stick too when I
want to clear it.
I've never had a stick go bad so I can't advise the OP that it is dead.
However, should he decide that it is, he just has to ensure that the
data is not private before he throws it out. Or, he has to physically
distroy the stick.
Doug.
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