Re: PGP Shredder for Linux servers?

["Ben Holland" <user=122@nabble.blu.org>]

 I emailed the sender directly. To totally hose a disk, I like dd or 
badblocks, dd with an in of /dev/zero and an out of the disk guarantees 
total disk destruction 
backblocks with the write setting writes a pattern to EVERY byte of the 
disk, again guaranteeing total disk destruction. Since the disk is mounted 
you should be able to do it. Then just reformat. I mean really why not? ~Ben 

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Cole Tuininga <[hidden email]> 
wrote: 

> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 11:38 -0400, Alex Pennace wrote: 
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:22:06AM -0400, John Abreau wrote: 
> > > The customer data is centrally managed from a Linux samba 
> > > server, though, and I need a way to do the same type of 
> > > file destruction on the server. What's the recommended 
> > > equivalent command-line software for securely deleting files 
> > > on Linux? 
> > 
> > Use shred(1). 
> 
> Note that this is completely ineffective on a journalled filesystem such 
> as ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS... 
> 
> See the above mentioned man page for details. 
> 
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