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From: Cami <camis@mweb.co.za>
Subject: Re: secure delete?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:01:46 +0200
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> Is there a way to securely delete a file or directory in ReiserFS or
> Reiser4? By "securely delete" I mean the kind of thing one of the PGP
> tools tries to do (i.e. overwrite the disk area with random bits several
> times). Of course this only works if the information is not moved around
> physically a lot (i.e. at all). Could secure delete work? Peter

srm will do the trick (securerm)..

Cami