Tony Cratz wrote: > Bill Broadley wrote: >> Well shred is for files, not disks. Erasing files is much trickier. Most >> editors make backup copies, undo logs, etc. Not to mention every time you >> edit a file the previous version (typically) gets deleted, thus those blocks >> are on the free list and floating around your disk. Not to mention any >> blocks >> that are swapped out. >> >> I'd consider shred radically less secure than just dd'ing the entire disk, >> which is itself less secure than a secure erase. > > > Us old school Unix people use to say that everything in Unix was > a file, be it a disk or a normal file.
Heh, sure, of course there's a few warnings. Shared libraries, other processes writing to the filesystem, caching, etc. Also if used on a file it's highly filesystem dependent, see the man page. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
