Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

[Alexander Skwar]

Qian Qiao schrieb:
> On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote:

>> dd if=/dev/zero of=file && rm file
>
> I'm a noob on journaling file systems, won't the file be recovered if
> the journal is re-played? When we erase a file like that, don't we
> have to figure out a way to erase the journal entry too?

No, the file won't be recovered. If it could be recovered,
the journal would have to be at least the size of the real
data, wouldn't it?


Alexander Skwar
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