[Mageia-dev] RM replacement

Pierre Jarillon jarillon at abul.org
Sun Aug 7 16:41:34 CEST 2011


Le vendredi 5 août 2011 16:23:19, Florian Hubold a écrit :
> Am 05.08.2011 14:58, schrieb andre999:
> > Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> >> I think srm should just be a tool people use explicitly when they want
> >> to.
> >
> > When I think about it, deleting with a pattern instead of just zeros is
> > probably only advantageous when a disk is being disposed of -- in which
> > case srm being a userspace tool is not a disadvantage.
> >
> >> Col
> 
> Well, if you want to dispose the disk, then i'd use something like Dariks
>  Boot and Nuke (DBAN):
> http://www.dban.org/
> It offers really secure methods of overwriting your data with varying
>  patterns, and if you want to dispose a whole disk. then maybe an userspace
>  tool to delete single
> files is not the best suited tool, IMHO.

Do you know WIPE ? http://wipe.sourceforge.net/
I don't know if it is the most secured rm, but it could be.

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