encrypting

[Henry Spencer]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > See the shred(1) manual page...
>
> hmm, looks like it was an interesting command, but from the man page, it 
> says it doesn't work effectively with journaled filesystems.

Unfortunately true.  It does about the best that can be done without active
cooperation from the filesystem, but it does require a certain amount of
passive cooperation, and the fancier modern filesystems don't provide it.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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