Re: [Trisquel-users] How to wipe the flash drive

[gnuser]

Actually is more a "lack of reference". I have read a little about both  
(homepages of each, forums, wiki, etc) and while founding several references  
about shred being unsafe in journaling systems, I found none in the nautilus  
wipe. I am not deying that it might also not be 100% safe, but still, I think  
nautilus wipe has still the advantage of giving you a menu option instead of  
relying on command line only. And, in the method I described above, I use its  
ability to wipe free space so that the software recover tools have less a  
chance of finding "remains" of the file.
As to speed, I haven't used shred in quite some time now, so I can't really  
compare. But I would say that securely wiping a file is never a fast process.