changing to EXT2 that WIPE can do its work

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 10:05 +0200, René L. Reingard wrote:
> I got it, ZIYAD, and i did it. no problem so far for me.
Great...

> so the next step will be to understand with what software to encrypt  
> important files and how to do that, right?
Yes!  Start with "gpg".  There's a lot of informations in their web site
<http://www.gnupg.org>.  Also, see the manual page of "gpg" and pay
attention to the options "--encrypt", and "--decrypt".

Also, you might be interested with "losetup" and the option "-e".  See
"man losetup" for more information about that.  As always, if you need
any inquires or questions, just ask again here and will be glad to (try
to) help.

> thank you.
> René
> 
You're welcome.

(Note [Off-Topic]:  In my previous message, a put some marks ("journal
file-system"¹, "wipe"², and "shred"³) that I forgot to include the
footnotes for them.  I was going to explain the difference between a
"journal" and a "non-journal" file-system and include the addresses of
the homepage for the utilities "shred" and "wipe", but this seems
unnecessary now.)


Ziyad.