using WIPE successfuly on EXT3

[Derek Broughton]

Ed Fletcher wrote:

> 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.  
> 
Right.  In which case, I'll agree.  I thought he wanted to be able to wipe
everything.
-- 
derek