Am 24.01.2015 um 00:58 schrieb David Howells: > Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This is for the more paranoid people, also it's >> questionable what paranoid nowadays means. > > shred? Seems to do the same like when using dd, just that it does it moultiple times. And according to an article I've read some years ago, overwrriting a blocks on harddisks multiple times doesn't really make sense because doing it just once is enough (the necessity to do it multiple times seems to have been one of these unexplainable myths in the IT) . So I've no idea if it's worth to use shred and have no idea if it's part of any GNU/Linux system (seems likely as it it's part of coreutils), how it's maintained and how long it will be available. But if requested, I will replace that dd with shred or just feel free to do it yourself. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
