Re: is shred available?

[John Wright <john@dryfish.org>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Hugh Graham wrote:
> [...]
> 
> >From rm(1):
> 
>  -P    Overwrite regular files before deleting them.  Files are overwrit-
>        ten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and
>        then 0xff again, before they are deleted.
> 
> You can find papers on restoring latent magnetic images from a once
> only overwritten file online.. apparently rm -P's method is sufficient.

If softupdates is going to buffer stuff is there only going to be one write
to disk?