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roland.g

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Apr 11, 2005
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When I run disk utility, it shows an external firewire disk, as well as the volume offset below it. If I want to run a 7 pass secure erase, do I select the disk, or the volume.

Why after running an erase on a disk, does the volume below it still show 4 folders occupying 51.8 MB if I just performed a 7 pass secure erase on the parent disk. FYI this disk only contains the one volume.
 
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