Schleimer, Ben wrote: > I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the > data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with > journalling filesystems??
Yes, that's pretty much possible. It could also happen, that the data is on a remapped (defective) sector. PS: Please could you try to shorten your lines a bit? Thanks! Alexander Skwar -- /* This is total bullshit: */ linux-2.6.6/drivers/video/sis/init301.c -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list