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From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Possibility for safe Luks partition delete functionality
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:16:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131211191607.GA9082@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A8B602.4030303@riseup.net>

On 11.12.2013, tada wrote: 

> I was wondering if it is possible to add something like shred or wipe
> functionality for Luks devices, call it luksWipe, to safely delete the
> luks header

You can do that easily by running dd against the first MB's of the
respective partition..

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdaX

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-11 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11 18:59 [dm-crypt] Possibility for safe Luks partition delete functionality tada
2013-12-11 19:16 ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
2013-12-11 19:18   ` Heinz Diehl
2013-12-11 20:21     ` Arno Wagner
2013-12-11 21:48       ` Heinz Diehl
2013-12-11 22:53         ` Arno Wagner
2013-12-12  6:11           ` Heinz Diehl
2013-12-11 20:55   ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-12-11 23:22     ` Sven Eschenberg
2013-12-12  0:29       ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-12-12  0:49         ` Arno Wagner
2013-12-15  2:55     ` Robert Nichols
2013-12-15 12:47       ` Arno Wagner

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