All, I was just thinking about file wiping tools in opensuse. In general file wiping tools are used if you have an important file you want to wipe (overwrite) before deleting. In the distro we have shred and wipe that do this, and in OBS we have srm and secure-delete (10 years old). It is clearly an issue that people are concerned about, but none of them seem to even try to address: - file remnants which maybe in the filesystem journal - backup copies of the files in snapshots (LVM, btrfs, ext4 snapshots) - wiping of unallocated space to overwrite earlier drafts which may have been deleted but are still in unallocated - SSDs and there potential for sector remapping during the write operation. - the swap partition can hold copies of data that is unencrypted in ram I realize a none of the above are trivial, but it seems they should make some effort to at least warn the user of the issues. Does opensuse have a file wiping tool that attempts to sanitize any of the above? If so, I'd like to create a simple wiki page that covers this topic. At present it seems the page will mostly discuss issues, and not have much in the way of solutions. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org