Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:30:35 -0500


Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> Forget the shred program. It's less useful than having the
> filesystem simply zero the blocks, because it's slow and you
> can't be sure to hit the OS-visible blocks.

Why not?

Please name a filesystem that moves allocated blocks around on you. And
point to code, too.

Jeff

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