SHRED for EXT3?

[Mike McCarty]

P. Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a secure file delete available for ext3 file systems?
>>
> 
> 
> My FC3 seems to have shred by default.
> 
> What would be cool was if the chattr +s option actually worked.
> 
> 
The shred program is there. But ext3 is journaled. So it does
not actually overwrite the file physically on disc.

Mike
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