Re: Adding of peter gutmann's paper concept to /bin/rm

Well, I suppose it depends how pedantic you want to be. No doubt they mean the OS's "format" command as opposed to the device's format command. However, modern SCSI disks don't necesarily do anything more than a surface scan when you tell them to format themselves. Of course, as these were almost certainly DOS machines the most they probably had down was the DOS format command which, in non-paleolithic versions at least, is completely reversible. Heck, the paleolithic version is probably reversible too w/o too much trouble too.

• todd