-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I was reading the man page for shred, and it says it is not effective in reiser. From the man page: "The following are examples of filesystems on which shred is not effective: * log-structured or journaled [sic] filesystems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)" The reason is that, apparently, those filesystems do not overwrite data in place. I use shred to delete some important temporary files. I keep some sensitive info in encrypted files. Once in a while I need to decrypt them, look at it, and then shred them when I'm done, keeping the encrypted version. It seems this procedure was giving me a false sense of security, since I use ReiserFS all around. Can anybody elaborate on this? Is there a shred equivalent for Reiser, or is Reiser immune to that kind of approach? How easy is it to retrieve deleted file info from a ReiserFS formatted partition? Happy new year! Adalberto -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBP/Rlot6AspoXaofZAQIkvg/+JMHVQZVl4BXh+ms5gRehPyDXjv+f0H8C cPb7hczjjYKOKnXH7H+sbuVgUr++rV87QS7DEbiDmiBAKQqZOxmWj/Yh3NMYjrYT Gx2H12SL2ZrxTMtszirnXk2erogkPn6so+GfEAi4SQYbE/nTyhPcxiHcPHo83w6l KO7vchiXPXt9n91hipnuz/xPjktoxj13uKqIrZACmdID3sMXyoFZbaJuqyNsf9BW 2gr2cZ9a1Lrx5ESCYz3vH1qFSgFXVy4rqswPHjaAoOXNNcEmjPFKMqd73V3AOTje D3NKSHSvjVQalaS/6hN3ljXPonZvxuT2rvkvc+8XKvOMcBJjkQLindbcmFleiBhj P+irnvLOwebFikBRVoOWHT5xCoBM6puNRq4nmfMNQ7diWr11O2JVj9zMruiMyqHz /5GV9rAFHhfWS30OUESjcTUBbSeRnb46MamukZrQGfYCb8s3LW9iAXnvu8C3Lzeh LyivVbWao18Tnzg2smoNt5ESRSFRchr9s+Vj4Zjt40oNWcP8PPtUNvuoH0FKhsnR G5zjNm2jBlO2EnShNulVlee/eM7riIjut+NGKg0nraDBqWsL96SSPvEwOSiK83s3 KjB+kPO5Rb3F0VCUz97HZuTO5TsjJKWU5acVI6kUKFKuoj9pBj8f1M/Azpsfk0lr Uy3or2ixPQ4= =7Qsd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Adalberto Castelo