Shred mount option for ext4?

2006-10-31 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Sorry if this has been discussed already, I couldn't find anything in the list archive about it. What about adding the possibility of shredding or erasing free blocks on an ext4 filesystem? I value my privacy and the privacy of the people I host, and I often use shred(1) when erasing files from

Re: Shred mount option for ext4?

2006-10-31 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:36:11AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: I value my privacy and the privacy of the people I host, and I often use shred(1) when erasing files from my server. The goal is to avoid that either a hacker or a post-mortem analysis gets ancien data from my disk. There are