> 3) # shred -vzn 65536 /dev/hda For future reference, man shred: NAME shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it SYNOPSIS shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...] DESCRIPTION Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos