hmm...
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| olefowdie Jun 21, 2012 12:44 PM EDT |
those are some fancy programs/commands for something really dead simple. why not use "dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/user/myfile.txt" |
| JaseP Jun 21, 2012 1:14 PM EDT |
Some of them rewrite the space over and over to avoid forensic reconstruction of the data... Your example might not be thorough enough for a high security environment. |
| skelband Jun 21, 2012 6:20 PM EDT |
Indeed, if the file is on an SSD, different pages may be assigned to the written 0s rather than rewriting the old pages due to wear leveling. In this case, it may well be insufficient to destroy the data. It's amazing what can be recovered using forensic techniques where disk pages have been rewritten even a number of times. The whole subject blows my mind. |
| gus3 Jun 21, 2012 6:37 PM EDT |
When spinning platters are the medium, and you just want to clear the old data in the unused space: 1. Get root. 2. Go to a directory on the volume you want to scrub. Any directory will suffice. 3. Issue the following command: dd if=/dev/zero of=zeros bs=1048576 4. Then issue this command: shred -vu zeros Unless the volume is already over 90% used, the journal isn't going to be a concern. It may slow things down, but it will be forced to commit writes to the dnodes long before write coalescing becomes an issue. |
| jezuch Jun 22, 2012 1:46 AM EDT |
Yeah, secure delete is tricky.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/personal-data-put-at... Quoting:why not use "dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/user/myfile.txt" Won't work on a copy-on-write filesystem like btrfs. It probably won't work on any modern filesystem, even if it usually does in-place writes. For SSD's it *may* be enough if your filesystem supports discard (the famed TRIM command in ATA land) and you just remove the file (and it's not present in any snapshots). But I would not bet on it. |
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