Securly deleting files in a journaled file system

[Edward Norton]

On 3/6/06, Edward Norton <r00t3d at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/6/06, Ben Weatherall <bweatherall at 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.
>


Ok, nevermind, I think I misread your email.  shred should work just fine.
Just try something like `shred -n100 -z`.
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