SHRED for EXT3?

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue Jul 26 02:29:38 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 21:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Is there a secure file delete available for ext3 file systems?

I don't know.
Most of them just seem to write all 0's and then all 1's several times.
If not - just reformat it with something that does have a secure file
delete and then do that.

Or do you mean secure file delete without  wiping other files?
I'm not familiar with shred.




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