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

[Nikita Danilov]

Alan Cox writes:
 > On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 01:30, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > Anything on IDE or SCSI or Flash. Just its done below you

Journalling file systems also may leave copies of data in the journal area(s).

 > 

Nikita.