On Friday 12 September 2003 06:37 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > > What is the difference between shredding a file/dir in konqueror and > > deleting it? > >
> shred overwrites those sectors on the hard disk where the file was > multiple times thus preventing someone from being able to reconstruct > the info you just shredded with forensic tools. IT writes a number of > times over where your file was stored with 1's & 0's... usually 8 passes > IIRC. Military shredding does like 25 or something... > Femme Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that when shredding file(s) that there is no fragmentation such as there is in the windows os and that the freed space can/is immediately available to be written to? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:49pm up 3 days, 21:55, 3 users, load average: 0.41, 0.41, 0.27
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