SHRED for EXT3?

[Damian Menscher]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> I think something like this will come close.
>
> lots of random writes
> tune2fs -O ^has_journal device
> shred shreddees
> tune2fs -O  has_journal device

My first thought when seeing this thread a few days ago was:
    remount as ext2; shred files; remount as ext3
I'm fairly certain that meets DoD standards.

Not sure why there's so much discussion here....

BTW, you will be amused to hear I wiped a drive for someone a few years 
ago via the (wipe|shred) /dev/hda method.  25 passes of patterns and 
random data.  No way any government could get that data back.  Doubtful 
that aliens could get it either.  And the person still keeps the drive 
in a secure location.  Yes, some people are paranoid.

Damian Menscher
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