Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Michael Weber <xmw@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:29:02
Message-Id:	`50F8891C.5020401@gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c by Maxim Kammerer

1	On 01/17/2013 11:42 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
2	> The journal is not cleared. On ext3/4, this usually means metadata —
3	> see [1] for more details. All in all, secure-delete has its uses. What
4	> are people supposed to use instead, dd if=/dev/zero
5	> of=/media/sdcard/naked_gf_0001.jpg? Besides, there are complementary
6	> tools in the package, like sfill.
7	++ for the VFAT/non-ext[34]/ argument
8
9	Personally I use shred from sys-apps/coreutils,
10
11	shred -uvxz /mnt/cf/naked_gf_0001.jpg
12
13	which might qualify for an alias, but it's good.
14
15	I'd grab this package, if thats the point.
16
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18	Michael Weber
19	Gentoo Developer
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