On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:56:28 -0400, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is there a program in Debian,which permits to erase files >> securely(using sophisticated patterns)?In PGP7 for Windows/Mac I >> think is there an utility to do so. > Yes. Wipe. Just apt-get install wipe, or aptitude install wipe, > which ever you prefer using. It depends on your filesystem. Wipe (or secure-delete) doesn't work too well on journaling filesystems (ext3, reiserfs, ...). (See the manpage for wipe.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
