I would like to make recovery of the data on LVM partitions (volumes) more difficult by physically overwriting them with random data several times. (For background information, please see the ever-linked paper by Peter Gutmann at http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html. One utitility that provides mentioned functionality is wipe, see http://wipe.sf.net.) So my question is how does LVM store its meta-information about the logical and physical volumes? Is there some meta-info stored in every block? What parts of data are not physically overwritten when writing to a logical volume? This is important because in order to delete data more securely one has to overwrite physical tracks of the disk where the data were previously stored. -- Alexander _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
