[ale] erasing ext3 filesystems securely

[Denny Chambers]

What if you mount you EXT3 FS as a EXT2 FS. Then no journaling will be done.

John Wells wrote:

>Guys,
>
>After letting shred run for 20+ hours on the drive I plan to return to
>Circuit City, I finally bothered to read the man page (doh) and found the
>following relevant excerpt:
>----
>CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the
>filesystem overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do
>things, but many modern filesystem designs do not satisfy this assumption.
>The following are examples of filesystems on which shred is not effective:
>
>* log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those supplied with
>
>    AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)
>----
>
>
>So...that's down the tubes.  Trying to google for the subject line and
>other  combinations hasn't turned up any definitive sources either.
>
>I don't need CIA level deletion here, but I would like to be reasonably 
>certain that noone could restore my data after the drive is returned.
>
>Is there a utility out there that can handle ext3 deletion?
>
>Thanks, as always.
>
>John
>
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