using WIPE successfuly on EXT3

[Derek Broughton]

Lee Braiden wrote:

> On Friday 21 October 2005 14:26, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Sure it would.  The journal is just a file.  It would get wiped like any
>> other file.
> 
> He's not talking about wiping the journal.  He's talking about wiping a
> file. If the journal still contains any information about that file, then
> the file may be more recoverable than expected.
> 
But the journal _is_ just a file.  When you mount the partition as ext2, why
is it going to be treated differently?
-- 
derek