On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:14 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter Eckersley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I was wondering if you would consider reducing the number of default > >> overwrites for "shred" from 25 to something more like 5? > > > > As near as I can make out, for modern disks the default should be 1. > > That's easy to change. Any objections? > > Hi Paul, > > My reflex was to object. Reducing the default number of passes from > 25 to 1 seemed extreme. But after skimming through the link below, > it's hard to argue :-)
Really? For "Top Secret+" material, their "secure erase newsletter" calls for 2 write passes, offset slightly on either side of the track (p 4). > > > There's also the Secure Erase facility built into modern ATA drives, > > which it sounds like 'shred' should use if it's available. > > Does anybody know how well GNU/Linux supports it? > > See <http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/hughes/SecureErase.html>. -- Peter Eckersley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Staff Technologist Tel +1 415 436 9333 x131 Electronic Frontier Foundation Fax +1 415 436 9993 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
