wipe utility

[Jerry Feldman]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:56:48 -0400
Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> wrote:

> If you want to be more secure, you could always have /tmp be a tmpfs
> (aka a ram disk).  Then the data is never stored on a hard drive
> anyway.  
> 
> Well, excluding swap I suppose.  Nevermind.
I would think that this is probably a good reason that a file system
level wipe is not overly affective. There is data left in the swap file,
in the journals, ...
I think something like shred(1) works only to make it more difficult for
another online user to see data left in a file. Since John Malloy was
the original poster, maybe John can be more specific as to why he wants
to use it, and how clean. 

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