15 Jan
2021
15 Jan
'21
9:36 a.m.
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 21:08, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I *know* that simply 'rm file' or 'del file' doesn't do all that much except allow the space to be overwritten but that's surely fairly well known.
There are standards for overwriting files multiple times with particular bit patterns to wipe data.
The "shred" command is supposed to do this on Linux but comes with many warnings and may not play nice with journaled filesystems.
An alternative is "srm"
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