On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:55:20 +0300, Nikita Danilov said: > Brett Russ writes:
> > 1) as mentioned first, an impact study should be done to determine if
> > unpacking will overflow the available space on the device
>
> Why cannot you do unpacking just before shredding particular file?
Unpacking before shredding has a subtle hole in it - since you will unpack
into *different* disk blocks and then shred *those* blocks, you will be
leaving unshredded data in the blocks the file occupied before unpacking.
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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