Ranjan Maitra <maitra <at> iastate.edu>: >> Thanks very much! I stand corrected from my previous answer which >> appears to have been out of inadequate knowledge. So, how does one >> "really delete" a file then? By using Windows, and not wanting it delete your files... :-\ Andre Robatino: > See the shred, srm, or wipe packages. Though, they can't be relied upon with journalled file systems. Even without that, subsequent writes aren't guaranteed to write over the top of prior files. You'd need to fill the drive, to hope to overwrite all the blocks. Encrypted file systems are the best options for making it hard for someone else to undelete your file. At best, they should only be able to salvage un-usable scrambled encrypted data, rather than a file. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
