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Old 04-30-2015, 03:31 AM   #427
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Most likely whoever finds them won't have the technical knowhow to do anything with the drives. Given that the filesystem's indices are gone it would be a difficult job to piece much back together. I really doubt that anything is at risk. If you're at all worried, either do this:

cat /dev/zero > file.txt
...wait for it to fill up the entire drive's empty space...
rm file.txt

Or...

install and run this:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...erofree.8.html


Both basically overwrite the free space...

I personally think both are overkill if whatever you had on the drive wasn't all that important and you've already installed Linux over the Windows partition.
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