using WIPE successfuly on EXT3

[Ed Fletcher]

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Derek Broughton wrote:
| 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?

I think that he wants to wipe a file but not the whole partition.  So if
he wipes file "X", then there may be some info left in the journal about
that file.  So he would have to:

1 - mount the partition as ext2
2 - wipe the file
3 - wipe the journal
4 - recreate the journal
5 - remount as ext3

For info on remaking the journal, look here:
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html

That page also has a link to the ext3 mailing list, which is where I'd
ask this question before taking a chance on a partition that I cared about.

HTH,
Ed
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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