Keisial wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to >> recover the contents of that file, given sufficient expertise and/or >> time. If you want more assurance that the contents are truly >> unrecoverable, consider using shred. >> >> That is, we want to point out that shred is better than rm at killing >> data, while at the same time reducing the newbie impression that >> recovery is easy, since it usually is not. > > What about s/the contents/some contents/ ? > The impression of easy recovery is gone since the newbie wants the full > file. Since retrieving just part of a file is bad enough for sensitive > contents, > the user goes for shred in that case. > > Depending on filesystem, here "some" can go from 0 to 100% so it's > technically correct, too.
I rather like this direction of description. Bob
