SHRED(1) FSF SHRED(1)
NAME
shred - delete a file securely, first overwriting it to
hide its contents
SYNOPSIS
shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]
...stuff deleted
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important
assumption: that the filesystem overwrites data in place.
This is the traditional way to do things, but many modern
filesystem designs do not satisfy this assumption. The
following are examples of filesystems on which shred is
not effective:
* log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those
supplied with
AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, etc.)
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:10:13PM -0400, Scott McDermott wrote:
> Chris Wedgwood on Mon 30/09 11:56 -0700:
> > That said, if you are *really* paranoid deleting and over-writing the
> > data doesn't suffice unless done carefully and eve nthen there are
> > caveats.
>
> Just use shred(1)...it's from fileutils so it should be on any GNU box.
> You also have to worry about VM pages being written to swap unencrypted.
> Encrypted loopback is probably better for this application.
>
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