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Stroller wrote: |
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> I've just tried `shred` on a file in a ResierFS partition and it |
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> certainly appears to work. |
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$ man shred >file |
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$ ls -l file |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 3685 Oct 31 00:11 file |
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$ shred file |
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$ ls -l file |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 131072 Oct 31 00:11 file |
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Hmm, would that mean that the "block size" on this reiserfs |
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filesystem is 128K? |
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Taken from 'man shred': |
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CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: |
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that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the |
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traditional way to do things, but many modern file system |
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designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following are |
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examples of file systems on which shred is not effective: |
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* log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those |
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supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.) |
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Benno |
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