[Mageia-dev] RM replacement

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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