Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 13:24:39 EST

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Kent Borg wrote:

> What happened to this feature? Was it too slow or buggy? Did the
> Federales force its removal?
>
> (Would this be best implemented as a background scrub and I am missing
> a daemon?)

man shred(1)

Much better than anything implemented in-kernel

Jeff

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