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What about shred(1)?

What about shred(1)?

Posted Oct 13, 2011 18:09 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: What about shred(1)? by lemmings
Parent article: Securely deleting files from ext4 filesystems

I for one would not be surprised if magnetic disks start to do much more aggressive remapping for the non-bad-sector case to help performance(benchmarks) just in order to compete with SSD's...
so I'd be rather hesitant to declare this "SSD only".

And then there's caches on magnetic disks.. sometimes these are battery/capacitor backed... but they could be flash as well.

The paranoid better encrypt in the higher levels.


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