Data Overwrite

From: McIntosh Alan-R54071 (alan.mcintosh@motorola.com)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 16:59:15 EST


Admins,

I am looking for a method to overwrite the blocks that confidential
data resides on after the archival of a users home directory. I have
been able to find methods of wiping an entire disk, but not just a
specified area on the disk.

Such as:

tar cvf - /users/homer | 'cd /storage; tar xf -'
dd if=/dev/zero of=/users/homer
dd if=/dev/null of=/users/homer

These do not work do to the fact that homer is a directory. Is there
a way to accomplish this without replacing anything else on the disk
except the data that was archived?

Alan McIntosh
IT - UNIX Systems Administrator
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