Secure Delete utilities for Linux EXT3

[Shawn Tayler]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:22:58 +1000 James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> exclaimed:

> >dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition/you/want/wipe/clean
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 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.

Couldn't you use /dev/random as the source?  There mustr be a simple
elegant solution to this....

Shawn