Re: file scrubbing
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 11:52, Josh McKinney wrote:
> 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.
Doh! Why didn't I think of that???????
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