shredding files on a flash drive

Fri Jan 18 22:22:00 UTC 2008

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:04:35PM -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> If you formatted it using ext3, then check out chattr's 's' option...

The file system has no clue and no say in how things are done under the
hood by a flash based device.  Blocks get remapped all the time as part
of wear leveling and hence spare blocks are rotated into use when other
blocks are overwritten.

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