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Knusper@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Hmm, what does that full format do? Write zeros over everything?

Personally, I would run shred on the root filesystem. It’s a tool specifically intended for properly deleting data (overwrites it with random data multiple times).

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