Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

[Dale]

It may also be of note that if you use reiserfs, you're out of luck.  I emerge secure-delete and it does not work on reiserfs.  I'm not usre about ext3 but it does journal so it may not work or may not work well. Those forensics folks sure are good though.  I have heard they can get it back even after you have wrote alternating 1's and 0's to the drive a dozen times.  I wonder how they do that?  Dale P.S.  I like to top post, does this tick anybody?  I also prefer top posters since my email opens at the top instead of the bottom anyway.  Saves me from having to scroll down. Glenn Enright wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:42, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: app-misc/secure-delete Description: Secure file/disk/swap/memory erasure utilities Just out of interest, I understand ext3 is pretty good at eliminating old data during delete, because the data structure is so abstract? So in this case a simple rm and poof files gone? Or are forensics beyond this now?