[Mageia-dev] RM replacement

Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz dlucio at okay.com.mx
Mon Aug 8 05:32:21 CEST 2011


Le Dimanche 07 Août 2011 23:03:15 Florian Hubold a écrit :
> Am 07.08.2011 16:41, schrieb Pierre Jarillon:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, and it has the advantage that you don't need to reboot. Good point!

Yes, but more than the tool is how to replace rm command

LD


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