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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:46:25
Message-Id: e32e89c9758fdbc1e10a5fa4e7673546@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files by Dale
1 I've just tried `shred` on a file in a ResierFS partition and it
2 certainly appears to work. `shred` is part of sys-apps/coreutils so
3 there should already be a manpage on your system if you're interested
4 in this utility.
5
6 Stroller.
7
8 On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:17 am, Dale wrote:
9 >
10 > It may also be of note that if you use reiserfs, you're out of luck. 
11 > I emerge secure-delete and it does not work on reiserfs.  I'm not usre
12 > about ext3 but it does journal so it may not work or may not work
13 > well.
14 > ...
15 >
16 > Glenn Enright wrote:On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:42, Hemmann, Volker Armin
17 > wrote:
18 >>> app-misc/secure-delete
19 >>>
20 >>> Description: Secure file/disk/swap/memory erasure utilities
21 >>>
22
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Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>