Secure Delete utilities for Linux EXT3

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004, James McDonald wrote:
>Net Llama! wrote:
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>>dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition/you/want/wipe/clean
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>Yes I know about this command but it's a little indescriminate as a free 
>space cleaner.
>
>I'm looking for something similar to sysinternal.com's sdelete utility 
>that uses Windows Defrag API to idenitify free space and overwrite it 
>with zero's or random stuff.

You could replace /bin/rm with a program that repeatedly copies random data
over the exisisting file before deleting it.

The only way to be totally sure the data's not recoverable involves a 3
pound hammer and an oxy-acetylene cutting torch.

Bill
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