On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 12:03 -0500, Bernie Hackett wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought shred was worthless for journaling > filesystems? Also, isn't shred meant for deleting files on a working machine > as opposed to wiping an entire disk bit for bit?
Hey Bernie, I'm a little fuzzy on it since I haven't used shred in >1 year. But you can use it to shred a whole filesystem by, e.g.: shred /dev/hda1 That will achieve a similar effect to all the dd if=/dev/urandom stuff done before, except that you can choose to do multiple passes and it will figure out all the details for you! You can get boot disks which you pop in and they run shred for you automatically... I believe I used the Linux System Rescue CD (amazingly handy!!!) and that has a copy of shred on it. Dan
