On 3/6/06, Ben Weatherall <bweatherall@pdxinc.com> wrote:
>
> I have been lurking on the list since I left the Phoenix area for Texas
> earlier this year. I now need answers from those I know and trust. Help!
>
> In the past, I have used both wipe and shred to remove files from a disk
> so they cannot be recovered. I am now having to do this under both Linux
> (SuSE SLES-9) and AIX (v5.2) where both use a journaled file system. All
> of the documentation says these tools will fail under these conditions.
> The final solution needs to handle ext3, Reiser and JFS.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> -Ben Weatherall


dban (dban.sf.net) is probably by far the best. However, of the filesystems
you listed, it only covers two: ext2/3, and reiserfs. JFS is not supported
AFAIK. UFS, however, is.