SHRED for EXT3?

[Ian Malone]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> 
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> 
>> 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...
>>
> 

> 
> Try geting some context before jumping in next time, ok?
> 

I had the feeling context at this point was 25x overwrite
of the entire device and secure storage.  Don't modern HDs
use glass platters?  Seems like conversion to sandpaper
would be more reliable.

-- 
imalone