Re: [tlug] Data rewrite technology

[Mauro Sauco <sauco@example.com>]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:36:56PM +0900, tlug <Mauro Sauco> wrote:
Shawn>>On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:30:31PM +0900, Shawn <Shawn> wrote:
Shawn>>Mauro>> man shred
Shawn>>Just be mindful to watch the filesystem.   It isn't necessarily effective 
Shawn>>on IDE or SCSI or Flash or journaling (ext3 for instance) types, is it?

Mauro>( acording to the author's documentation), However these FS's journaling 
Mauro>only log changes to the filesystem metadata, so I dont know if the doc says 

WRONG, further reading shows that ext3 has 3 journaling modes ..

Mauro>is 100% true.. mmm... if it is true, then this command is virtually unusable nowadays, isn't it ?

Yep, almost unusable ...

So my friend, if you get in troubles dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda  a couple of times :) <kidding>

BTW, I recomend the newbies to try "rm -rf /" (read mail really fast) <-- THIS IS A JOKE, DO NOT TRY IT AT HOME >

Sorry, for the waste of bandwidth.

//mauro//