begin quoting Steve Bibayoff as of Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:37:13PM -0800: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:30:56 -0800, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: [snip] > > You may run into problems if the system has to access a swapped-ou > > process after the swap partition/file has been obliterated. > > And/or if the kernel tries to swap out a process, and finds that swap > no longer exists.
So the truly paranoid would run machines without swap. So we need: sudo swapoff -a && nohup sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda bs=1M & exit ? -Stewart "Although shred does seem to be designed for this" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
