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Re: PGP Shredder for Linux servers?



 On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:05:37PM -0400, Cole Tuininga 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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