On Sunday 08 October 2006 22:26, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I thought this was a wind up :) and so I did 'man shred' and > whadayaknow, it exists and is pretty groovy. I did not know that the shred command could remove subdirectories, only files. That is why I only mentioned 'wipe'. Neither tool will work on journaled filesystems.