Re: is shred available?

[chris stillson <fluffy@adsl-63-195-60-138.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:01:45AM -0700, Jill Lundquist wrote:
> 
> Is there an OpenBSD equivalent to the Linux 'shred' command, something
> that will not just delete a file, but will overwrite it with random
> data a number of times?  What would it be called?
> 
> >From what I've heard of the kinds of detail that went into 'shred',
> like encouraging the disk head to move as much as possible to
> leave no trace of one or zero in its path, it doesn't sound, ah,
> highly portable.

Something that i've used is a program call srm.

srm.sourceforge.net, iirc

it does 7-10 writeovers, of varying types (random, all 1's, all 0's)

chris

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