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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
Cc: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: secure erasure of files?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:45:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C69B71F.E0A940DC@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202121409150.18597-100000@mustard.heime.net> <20020213003649.GA13722@zero>

Tom Vier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:12:49PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > Does anyone know if it'll be hard to enable a <em>secure</em> deletion of
> <snip>
> > Is this hard/possible/doable?
> 
> read:
> 
> http://wipe.sf.net/

The program /usr/bin/shred has existing in GNU fileutils, and thus most
Linux systems, for years and years...

	Jeff



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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-13  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-12 13:12 secure erasure of files? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-12 13:41 ` Davidovac Zoran
2002-02-12 14:03   ` Padraig Brady
2002-02-12 15:55   ` Andreas Ferber
2002-02-12 19:47     ` Jan Hudec
2002-02-12 20:25       ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-13  0:03         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-13  9:33     ` Helge Hafting
2002-02-13 18:27       ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-13  0:36 ` Tom Vier
2002-02-13  0:45   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-02-20 15:34 ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found] <200202121326.g1CDQct12086@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2002-02-12 13:33 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-17 21:19   ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2002-02-19 12:54     ` Jens Schmidt
2002-02-19 14:24       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-21  2:56         ` Petro
2002-02-21  3:20           ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-02-21 17:01             ` Holger Lubitz
2002-02-26  3:39             ` Petro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-12 21:14 Torrey Hoffman
2002-02-19 14:48 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-19 17:32 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-02-19 17:59   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-19 18:48     ` Rogier Wolff
2002-02-19 20:01       ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-19 23:13 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-19 16:19 Jesse Pollard

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