Stroller wrote: > I've just tried `shred` on a file in a ResierFS partition and it > certainly appears to work.
$ man shred >file $ ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 3685 Oct 31 00:11 file $ shred file $ ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 131072 Oct 31 00:11 file Hmm, would that mean that the "block size" on this reiserfs filesystem is 128K? Taken from 'man shred': CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is not effective: * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
