Re: [PLUG] secure file deletion with journaling filesystems

["Brian Mohr" <brian@bpmohr.com>]

With NTFS you can use "cipher" a microsoft tool, if you trust it.  I 
believe there is a way to configure the (EXT3) to not allow recovery.  
I remember that being an advantage to the file system.  I have been 
wondering about that myself.

Brian Mohr (KillerV)

> I like to have a way to securely delete files on computers I use.  On 
my
> Windows 98 machine at work,
>  I have Eraser (http://www.iki.fi/st/eraser).  Linux (well, SuSE and
> Libranet) come with shred.
> However, a quick look at shred's man page warns that it's not useful 
on
> journaling filesystems.  This
> would include reiser, ext3, xfs, I guess all of them except ext2.
> I'm pretty ignorant about filesystems; is it logically impossible to 
have
> secure deletion with a
> journaling filesystem, or is shred just not the tool for the job?
> 
> While we're on the topic:  is NTFS a journaling filesystem?
> 
> Greg Helledy
> 
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