SHRED for EXT3?

[Thomas Cameron]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 18:49 -0500, Damian Menscher wrote:

> 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.

Jeez, seems a sledge hammer would make more sense...

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