wipe and journalling file systems (was Re: Deleting a Folder)

2006-10-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/06 12:39, Pollywog wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:41, Richard wrote: [snip] > Have you looked into the 'wipe' utility? > It won't work on journaled filesystems, though. The shred(1)[0] man page states: In the case of ext3 fi

Re: Deleting a folder

2006-10-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 08 October 2006 22:26, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I thought this was a wind up :) and so I did 'man shred' and > whadayaknow, it exists and is pretty groovy. I did not know that the shred command could remove subdirectories, only files. That is why I only mentioned 'wipe'. Neither tool w

Re: Deleting a folder

2006-10-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/10/06 20:59), pete wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:19:24PM +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > I'm not certain but I think you can use this command: > > > > rm -R [folder name] > > > > check the man page...you can also remove files that begin/end with specific > > strings. > > I someti

Re: Deleting a folder

2006-10-08 Thread pete
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:19:24PM +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > I'm not certain but I think you can use this command: > > rm -R [folder name] > > check the man page...you can also remove files that begin/end with specific > strings. I sometimes use the 'shred' command, typically like this :

Re: Deleting a folder

2006-10-08 Thread Jonathan Roberts
I'm not certain but I think you can use this command:rm -R [folder name]check the man page...you can also remove files that begin/end with specific strings.-- Jon

Re: Deleting a Folder

2006-10-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:41, Richard wrote: > Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items, > from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of media > types.. > > What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its contents, > without me going into the folder

Re: Deleting a Folder

2006-10-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andreas Berglund wrote: Richard wrote: Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items, from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of media types.. What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its contents, without me going into the folder and hand dele

Re: Deleting a Folder

2006-10-08 Thread Andreas Berglund
Richard wrote: Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items, from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of media types.. What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its contents, without me going into the folder and hand deleting items by group type.

Deleting a Folder

2006-10-08 Thread Richard
Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items, from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of media types.. What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its contents, without me going into the folder and hand deleting items by group type. Just looking for