Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> laptop for security purposes. I plan to use a script which uses shred >> and tmpwatch to clear them out. >> >> Thank you ... I will try this. >> > > Make sure your /tmp isn't journaled or shred won't really work well. ext4 is to have a cool feature I read some time ago, it can be asked to crap on the sectors that contained a deleted file AND crap over the metadata. I don't know if it takes care of the journal or not. It takes care of overwriting the unlinked sectors lazily over the next little while after the delete IIRC. -Andy
