Question on securely wiping EXT3 and some questions on linux and privacy in general

Naja Melan najamelan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 16:24:54 UTC 2008


Try  ¨shred --help¨ in a terminal. I think you will find it does work on
EXT3 file systems.

As far as I understand, it will wipe the data, but not the metadata, like
the MFT, and the journal...

thx anyway
naja
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