On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 11:40:18PM +0530, SEN wrote: > To rectify this maybe you need something like what I'll call a 'File > Shredder', which overwrites > your original data in a form so that it cannot be recovered using certain > prescribed standards. > > 1) How important is something like that in a Linux Server or a Linux Box ? > 2) Are there any packages implementing this already ? Actually, paranoia has no limits. Even after data has been "erased" it is allegedly recoverable by analyzing some magenetic patterns on the platters. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html -Arun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
