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Weblog:   Please, For the Love of All That's Recoverable, Shred Your Hard Drive!
Subject:   from man shred
Date:   2005-03-31 17:50:12
From:   EnigmaCurry
Response to: from man shred

I assume that since you pasted part of the man page from shred you assume that the article's method does not work on filesystems like JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.


This is completely incorrect. The article's method works great _no_matter_what_filesystem is used on the hard drive.


What the man page is saying is that it cannot gurantee that a individual _file_ can be erased on journaling filesystems. Since we're shredding the entire filesystem this is a non-issue.
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  • from man shred
    2005-03-31 17:51:44  EnigmaCurry [Reply | View]

    whoops, didn't realize this topic was already addressed. It didn't show the thread on the main page. :)
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