On 31 Jan 2006, at 13:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote:

I understand that writing zeros over the file should permanently delete the data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive...

On 31 Jan 2006, at 13:31, Schleimer, Ben wrote:

I just read the docs for shred and it doesn't guarantee that the data will be erased on a journalling file-system.

A solution to this is to shred the whole drive.

Stroller.



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