defcon wrote: > Hey all, I have failed at wiping my freespace on my hard drive, what I > have done is: > [dd] if=/dev/urandom of=bigfile > and I also have tried sfill from the secure delete package from thc. > I have successfully recovered all deleted files after wiping the hard > drive with foremost, since this is a journaling filesystem is there > any way around this, is anyone experienced in this and have tried to > wipe/recover files on ext3? > Thanks > defcon If you think journaling is the issue, tune2fs -O ^has_journal, mount it as ext2, and run your wiper again. However, in almost all cases I would not expect that you'll be able to recover "all deleted files" from a properly wiped filesystem, even with a journal. (the exception might be something like only a few files deleted, and journaled data mode, and a very smart recovery tool, although I'd expect the wiper to wrap the log anyway, depending on how it runs). -Eric _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
