I've just tried `shred` on a file in a ResierFS partition and it
certainly appears to work. `shred` is part of sys-apps/coreutils so
there should already be a manpage on your system if you're interested
in this utility.
Stroller.
On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:17 am, Dale wrote:
It may also be of note that if you use reiserfs, you're out of luck.
I emerge secure-delete and it does not work on reiserfs. I'm not usre
about ext3 but it does journal so it may not work or may not work
well.
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Glenn Enright wrote:On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:42, Hemmann, Volker Armin
wrote:
app-misc/secure-delete
Description: Secure file/disk/swap/memory erasure utilities
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