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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list