wipe utility

[colet at code-energy.com (Cole Tuininga)]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 22:05, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> As I interpret this, "wipe" will work with any of these journaling
> modes to overwrite data at its primary location on the disk.  However,
> with "data=journal" there may be another copy of the data in the
> journal that "wipe" would not reach.

Another option with an ext3 partition is to simply remount it
temporarily as an ext2 partition.  In the majority of cases, this would
allow wipe/shred/whatever to work as advertised.

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 lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
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Cole Tuininga
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