Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > Besides, you can't "wipe" files on a journaling fs.  So, you re-
> > mount your ext3 partition as ext2, wipe the file(s) and then re-
> > mount as ext3.
> > [...]
>
>
> Huh?
>
> Are you suggesting that you can't permanently delete a file's data by 
> overwriting the file before deleting it?

That's not a suggestion, that's a fact of life with all
journaling file systems I'm aware of.

Mike
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