Re: file scrubbing

[Josh McKinney <forming@charter.net>]

On approximately Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:20:35AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Geoff Crompton <geoff.crompton@bjhcontrols.com.au> [2002-08-09 15:14:30 +1000]:
> >   Does anyone know of any file scrubbing tools? Something that will zero out 
> > the contents of a file, or overwrite it with random data? Previously I have 
> 
> If you are not using ext3 or reiser then you can look at the 'shred'
> program.  But it does not work with journaling filesystems.
> 

If you want to use this however you could just mount the filesystem ext2 and scrub/shred, then
when done mount back as ext3.

Josh