[NBLUG/talk] shred questionj

[Lincoln Peters]

On Saturday 12 August 2006 22:37, Walter Hansen wrote:
> there's a command line argument to delete the file after it's done,
> check the man page.

Here's what I do when shredding files:
shred -fuvxz /path/to/some/file

When shredding entire filesystems:
shred -fvxz /dev/something

Note that shredding files does not reliably destroy them if you're using a 
journaling filesystem (although you could probably work around this by 
remounting the filesystem with journaling disabled prior to shredding files; 
just don't forget to re-enable journaling when you're done).  Of course, 
journaling is not an issue when you're shredding the entire filesystem...


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