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

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 15:28:34 EST


On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 19:05, Kent Borg wrote:
> Another example of why this needs to be done in the file system. (And
> that help is sometimes needed from the "disk" particularly in cases
> like flash IDE rives.)

The file system can't do it
The flash device won't give you the info to do it
The ide disk wont give you the info to do it

Its possibly a polite hint from the universe to use encryption 8)

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