Shadowchaser Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 Hello all Are there any good Shredder programs for Mandriva 2005 LE? thanks -SC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 There's shred, which is included in coreutils, but read the caution in the man page. Don't know if there's anything better... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 No use for journaling filesystems; so that's Ext3 and Reiser out then. The fact that there's nothing on Sourceforge (or Google from what I can see) being developed to address this application, one wonders if that's because it is either impossible, or irrelevant, on these types of FS. I certainly don't know much at all about filesystems though, so this is just speculation. I did find this Debian mailing-list page: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/11/msg05579.html The upshot there is that you could temporarily re-mount your disk as Ext2, and then use shred. Of course this means the file has to be on a different partition to the system, or you'll have to reboot (twice) to do it. ...Or if you were using Ext2 anyway, yer laughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 What about using MCC and in the partitioning section of Mount Points unmount and remove the partition, then create a new ext2 an mount it and shred? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 There are also some Linux Wipe Tools available at basicsec.org, which can wipe the swap partition, unused disc space or an entire partition. The Readme file warns that journaling filesystems cannot be wiped as cleanly as ext2. For superior data hygiene, always use the ext2 filesystem. These tools were originally recommended on The Register. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted June 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 thanks to all who responed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Heya, although this maybe requires some extra work, but I read that RSBAC has something called secure delete which works with journaling filesystems I believe. I found something about it on the following page: http://www.rsbac.org/documentation:different_models:ff It seems that not all filesystemtypes are supported. I saw that there was a feature-request in the bug-tracker for (other?) jourlaed filesystems I think. greetings, Michel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted June 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Thanks for the Link Michel :) going to check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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