On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:18, Ray Muno wrote:
> 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.)
If shred just overwrites in place it will be effective with XFS,
that man page is wrong.
Steve
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