fileutils 4.1 manpage/info file for shred says:
* log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, etc.) These filesystems are only log structured for metadata and in near all cases overwrite file data in place. One exception is ext3 in data journaling mode (that's not the default) -Andi _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils