[ale] Secure drive wipes on ext4 file system?

Raj Wurttemberg rajaw at c64.us
Thu Dec 11 09:30:20 EST 2014


I have external USB drives that I need to do a secure wipe on regularly. I
have been using the 'shred' command but I just read that shred does not
really work will on journaling file systems.

The only other think I can think of is to do a manual 'dd' to the drive to
write over every single sector.

Thoughts?

Kind regards,
/Raj



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