Re: delete == delete

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Author: Jon M. Hanson
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Subject: Re: delete == delete
> * Quoth Jon M. Hanson (), on Wed, 2007.05.16, at
> 07:47 -0700:
>> der.hans wrote:
>>
>> From a higher level there are the utilities shread and srm that you may
>> already have installed. These work at a filesystem level.
>
> Don't these utilities not play nice with journalled filesystems?


It's not that they don't play nice with journalled filesystems. Journalled
filesystems will have a window where the data that you tried to destroy
will still be recoverable through the filesystem's journal under a certain
window of time but I don't think that window is very long. They put those
warnings about journalled filesystem in the man pages for those utilities
for the paranoid but it is good information to know.

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