Shredding files

[Neil Winchurst]

John L Fjellstad wrote:
> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> What file system are you on? If it's ext2/3 then _good_luck_ trying to
>> recover files. Really, it's supposed to be technically near impossible
>> to recover files on ext systems (with the exception of jpeg files-
>> because of the way the file starts AND ENDS).
>>     
>
> Being technically near impossible only holdst for ext3.  ext2 only
> removes the entry in the directory table.
>
> e2undel uses this fact to undelete a deleted file on an ext2 fs:
> http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/8/e2undel.html
>
>   
Actually my last answer was wrong. Having checked I find that I am using 
Ext3.

Neil Winchurst