On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:42:17PM -0600, Matt Thoren wrote: > Couldn't you achieve the same thing if: > 1. use fdisk and repartion the drive into 1 or more partitions. > 2. create a large file(2MB+ size determined by memory and disk > geometry?) with a null characters repeated as contents for the file. > 3. copy the file as many times to fill up the disk > > Wouldn't this overwrite everything on the disk? Where else could the > old data be hiding? In the unused metadata regions of the new file system. They aren't big, but there is room for data to show through there. Nate