On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I think something like this will come close.
lots of random writes
tune2fs -O ^has_journal device
shred shreddees
tune2fs -O has_journal device
My first thought when seeing this thread a few days ago was:
remount as ext2; shred files; remount as ext3
I'm fairly certain that meets DoD standards.
Not sure why there's so much discussion here....
BTW, you will be amused to hear I wiped a drive for someone a few years
ago via the (wipe|shred) /dev/hda method. 25 passes of patterns and
random data. No way any government could get that data back. Doubtful
that aliens could get it either. And the person still keeps the drive
in a secure location. Yes, some people are paranoid.
Damian Menscher
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