Neil Jones wrote:

> I have been using Eraser software which overwrites the file with
> random
> data several times to make it unrecoverable. Recently, I have
> attended
> the Forensics class offered by SANS. When it came to the topic of
> metadata, some of the classmates mentioned that Eraser works only at
> the
> application level. This confused me a bit.
>
> My question now is, does Eraser delete the data and metadata as well?
> If not, then how do you delete metadata? How do you cleanup the
> metadata at the file system level? I use Eraser on Vista and Linux.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> NJ

I've never used (or heard of) it, but on Linux check out the shred
command.
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