[opensuse] Re: Securely delete wipe shred files

Philippe Landau writes:

Hi, i am looking for a GUI way to securely delete directories and files recursively.

You should be able to add an entry to the context menu of the your file manager of choice with the program mentioned below.

On CLI, how can i use wipe to erase /drive/sampledir ?

,---- | man shred `---- However, note that shredding is not really possible on journaling file systems. The exception is ext3 as long as you did not change it to use data=journal (data=ordered (default mode) and data=writeback works fine). For whole directories, it is easy to write a script. Charles