[ale] erasing ext3 filesystems securely

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> Denny Chambers said:
> 
>>What if you mount you EXT3 FS as a EXT2 FS. Then no journaling will be
>>done.
> 
> 
> You don't actually mount the partition...you just tell shred the partition
> (/dev/hda1) or the entire drive (/dev/hda).

Then I don't understand the docs you posted earlier.  If shred is doing 
a raw write, which is what I would expect it to do, then type type of 
file system should not matter.

When you were done running shred, was the filesystem still intact on 
that drive?

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Until later, Geoffrey