really deleting

[Brad Hards]

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On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:36, Martin Pool wrote:
> On  2 Mar 2003, Andrew Donehue <andrew at donehue.net> wrote:
> >           I am after a program that will go through an ext2 based
> > filesystem and look for any deleted files, and actually zero out the
> > contents of that deleted file on the hdd..... The reason for this
> > is.....
>
> I don't know of a program that'll do it, but you should be able to get
> the information you need out of debugfs, and build something in a
> script on that.
>
> Or perhaps you can use dump(8) rather than dd.
Almost certainly, you don't want machines that are totally identical. Think 
about IP addresses, etc.

http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-12/cloning_01.html provides some approaches that 
are a bit more sophisticated than dd. Kickstart will probably help, unless 
you are using a less flexible distribution (such as Debian :)

Brad
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