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Title: How to use Terminal to securely erase free space on a Mac’s mechanical drive
Post by: HCK on September 20, 2021, 04:05:11 pm
How to use Terminal to securely erase free space on a Mac’s mechanical drive

If you’re selling an old Mac with a hard drive, a spare hard drive, or you’re just quite paranoid about your deleted data, you’re either familiar with—or should be familiar with—the Erase Free Space button on the Erase tab in Disk Utility (found in your Applications -> Utilities folder). Editor’s note: This Terminal tip originally […]

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