On 03/04/2012 9:11 AM, Walt wrote:
> Not at all. Simply run
>
> rm -rf
>
> Much cleaner, simpler, and guaranteed to remove everything.
Unfortunately you would have to do this on each partition, it also
doesn't deal with the master boot record, and the partition table would
still be intact. As well, you can in theory still undelete the nodes.
Some other things that you have to do, for each partition you must make
sure the file system you do "rm -rf *" on is mounted first (more
commands). This leads to the other issue that if you use unsupported
file systems in windows (ie, Win8's new ReFS) it won't mount properly,
preventing rm from working.