Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system
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On 07/15/2010 08:46 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote:
> I am skeptical whether there is any good reason for tools like wipe2fs,
> zerofree and friends (if there are any...), when a dd && sync && rm have the
> same result.
>
You could say this about many things. These commands make things
convenient. Why do those things manually when software can do it for you?
Example:
Under the same logic I could say that there no good reason for dget. I
can manually wget the .dsc, .tar.orig and .changes to accomplish the
same thing... but why when I can just dget the .dsc?
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Jordan Metzmeier
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