SHRED for EXT3?

[Michael Hennebry]

I think something like this will come close.

lots of random writes
tune2fs -O ^has_journal device
shred shreddees
tune2fs -O  has_journal device

The lots command is to clear propriety information from the journal.
It's probably unnecessary.
It might be useful if the new journal is not in the same place as the old.
In that case, you might want a program that "shreds"
the "file" consisting of all the unused blocks and
use it after restoring journalling.

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