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[ale] erasing ext3 filesystems securely



Denny Chambers said:
> What if you mount you EXT3 FS as a EXT2 FS. Then no journaling will be
> done.

You don't actually mount the partition...you just tell shred the partition
(/dev/hda1) or the entire drive (/dev/hda).

Thanks,
John