On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 14:11 +0000, Mike C wrote: > In this case I was looking for deletion of a small number of files > which may have sensitive info but to retain the system, including the > HD, in a working fashion for the new owner. If you only care about making it hard for someone to casually undelete something, and aren't after high security wiping, there's options like: Remount without journalling, e.g. as ext2, then shred. Delete the files, fill the drive to capacity from /dev/random or /dev/zero, then delete the filler. If /home is a partition, reformat it. (Actually format, not just the usual pretend format that is usually done on hard drives, these days.) The second has the potential to hang your system, if it needs some drive space while you're in the middle of doing it. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
